On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ming Kin Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If asking for a way to report a bug resembles looking for free
> support, well, I don't know what to say. ?If I have a product and
> care about it, I would love people giving feedback and tell me
> what's wrong about it. ?I too have to eat, pay rent and gas, etc.
> ?And I basically would provide free service to the company by
> reporting a bug to it.

I would suggest trying to reproduce the problem in OpenSolaris,
Solaris Express, etc.  If it still exists and you can't find the bug
by searching at bugs.opensolaris.org, file it there.  If the bug has
been fixed in OpenSolaris, there is a pretty good chance that Sun
knows about it and has not chosen to (or chosen not to) backport it to
Solaris 10.  If the bug still exists in OpenSolaris but you can't find
a bug report, you can file one at bugs.opensolaris.org.  Since the
code bases are closely related Sun has a pretty good idea that it
affects more than just OpenSolaris.

I too am often annoyed that my pet bug doesn't get fixed in the
release I need to run in production.  However, I have embraced
involvement (honest feedback, evaluations of proposals, code
contributions) in OpenSolaris as my means to limiting the time that
bugs bother me.  It doesn't mean that I always get my way, but when
approached tactfully it almost always means that I am heard by those
that are best able to cause changes to happen.

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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