Rachna Mahajan wrote: > The BugTraq team has been involved all along , however we did not make > our presence felt on the forum.
There is no such thing. :) You can't be involved and not be on the forum. How else are people supposed to know you are involved? > The BugTraq team responded to the OpenCommunity's initial request with 2 > options: If you didn't respond on the forum publicly - then you didn't respond, unfortunately. > 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. Is that a thread that everyone can see? I've not heard of a situation where bridging DTS's has worked... from what I understand, it's usually been a pretty dismal failure. > 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. And the short term changes are appreciated... but we *do* need to move forward in implementing a long term plan. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
