On Dec 3, 2007 6:38 PM, David Van Couvering <david at vancouvering.com> wrote:
> Hm, I got the email this time, but it's a bug id that works internal
> to Sun only: 6636848, or
> http://bt2ws.central.sun.com/CrPrint?id=6636848.
>
> I tried typing this into the open solaris bug tracking tool, and it
> says the bug doesn't exist.  I did a full text search for mysql and
> got 9 hits, none of which are my bug.  I also tried limiting to
> "solaris/utilities" and got nothing, and the actual category it
> searched for was cdwx/utility.
>
> This is *soooo* broken! I don't know how *anybody* can use this bug
> tool!!  What are people *really* doing to manage their issues?

They don't use this tool to manage them. They use an internal one
called bugster.

> Just to summarize the problems I'm having:
>
> * The first time I logged a bug, it said "the bug has been logged" and
> gave me *no* reference to the bug id, even the number let alone a link
> to its entry
> * I never got an email

That's because any bugs entered have to be manually triaged by a
person before they actually get turned into a "real bug."

Once that happens, you'll get an email.

> * A search for it showed up nothing - and the search tool is brain
> dead.  I can't search by bugs I logged or bugs assigned to me or
> anything like that.  It's like a demo search UI.

Unfortunately, due to privacy, confidentiality, and resources external
users are extremely limited in what they can do.

> * The categories in search don't even match up to the categories
> available when creating a bug

Now that I haven't seen.

> * The *second* time I logged it, I got an email, but with a *Sun
> internal* bug id (bugster), and when I tried to use this bug id
> externally, no go, and search still came up empty (see above).

Unfortunately, depending on the bug you filed there are two possibilities:

1) It hasn't been "sync'd up yet" to the external bug website
(bugs.opensolaris.org)

2) The bug involves security or is against a software component that
is not open source yet and thus will not be made available on the
external bug tracker

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben

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