On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@sun.com > wrote:
> Matthew Stevenson wrote: > > General question to anyone: why is there a bugster AND a bugzilla for > opensolaris? Do they serve different purposes? > > bugster is Sun's internal bug tracking system, which was in place many > years > before Sun decided to open source Solaris. It contains 25+ years worth of > history for all Sun products, customer data, confidential information, data > about encumbered code which cannot be opened, etc. It's also entirely > inside > the Sun firewall, as is required for securely storing all that information. > bugs.opensolaris.org allows a filtered view of a subset of that data and > provides a way to submit new bugs to it, but doesn't support people outside > the firewall updating bugs, owning them, or doing anything beyond > submitting > and reading/searching them. > > After long evaluation of the options, it was decided that instead of trying > to > write additional code to expand the limited public access to bugster to > allow > for community development, it was better to just start over with a bugzilla > bug > db, which was set up as defect.opensolaris.org. We should be working > through a > transition process to use d.o.o's bugzilla as the primary bug tracker, but > the > bulk of the transition has been delayed, so right now bugzilla is currently > mainly used by projects under development, and teams like GNOME/Mozilla > with > less history and encumbered code to deal with in the old bug db. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Since bugster is not very functional for our community, I would suggest that we document this clearly on the website. In fact Alan's response would serve to that end. -- Cheers, Steven
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