Re: [tools-discuss] Draft DTS requirements, 2

[Rachna Mahajan]

James C. McPherson wrote: Rachna Mahajan wrote: ... While we have been taking some baby steps to help make the final decisions, we are working on making some changes to the BugTraq's email notification program for notifications sent to non-Sun addresses. We will be piloting the change for Open Solaris in September. Hi Rachna, while I think this is a great step to have made progress on, it is, as you say, a _baby_ step. We've now had more than 2 years of OpenSolaris out in the wild, and more than that courtesy of the tonic pilot project. To date, it appears to me and many others that there has been sod-all progress towards getting an open bug/rfe tracking system operational. I am aware that there have been funding issues from the Bugster side. I'm past caring, really. I as well as the Bugster team share your frustration , however I am not sure I can blame the lack of progress on funding issues from the Bugster side.  The Bugster team was approached last year and the initial context was really about trying to improve our bridging/interfacing mechanisms for a Defect tracking system of OpenCommunity's choice to bridge with Bugster. If there is no significant involvement of people from Sun's Bugster team - and to date I have not observed any such involvement - then the OpenSolaris community appears to be doomed to live with something which is less than second best. That is not acceptable to me and many others in the OpenSolaris community. What other, concrete steps are you and the Bugster team taking to assist with this process? The BugTraq team has been involved  all along , however we did not make our presence felt on the forum. The BugTraq team responded to the OpenCommunity's initial request with 2 options: 1. Use the existing Bugtraq with a custom UI to interface with the community. 2. Improve and support bridging mechansim to allow bridges from any Defect tracking system to BugTraq. For various reasons, option 1 was rejected. Option 2 may not be necessary depending on the selection of a tool and its features. The tool selection process depended on the DTS requirements which the community has been discussing and the BugTraq team has provided their input/feedback in a separate thread.  In addition, the BugTraq team looked at any short term changes that could alleviate some of the pain that the Open Community feels in using the existing system ( please keep in mind that Bugster was never meant to be an Open Community tool ). That is where the email notification changes once implemented will provide updates to the non-Sun Community members. Regards, Rachna frustrated, James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems -- ******************************************************************************* Rachna Mahajan 510-550-7248/x32416 BugTraq Business Program Manager Global Product Development Mailstop :USCA21-311 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4210 Network Circle Santa Clara, CA 95054 *******************************************************************************

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