Garrett> ... the b.o.o description just says "see comments", which is rather
Garrett> unhelpful for those of us outside of Sun.
Brian> It is bad enough that much important information cannot be exposed
Brian> outside of Sun, it is a real shame that many engineers who should
Brian> know better still put "see comments" in the description field.
Indeed. We in ON have discussed this occasionally, with some progress but
not as much as we'd like. I just now updated
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/crt/rti-nits/
which we point people to for the "paperwork items" we expect in a bug report,
among other things.
Brian> What can we do about this? Is there some alias or something we should
Brian> send a reminder to?
I will send another message to the ON CRT advocates.
Brian> ... I would hate to dress down engineers more senior that myself.
Do it anyway: that's one of the ways to become a more senior engineer, by
stepping up and showing leadership when it is needed.
-- John
http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck