OK, I relogged the bug, assigned to 'ruby' this time. Again, it says "the bug has been logged" with no bugid and so far I have received no email. Hopefully you can find it...
David On Dec 3, 2007 10:27 AM, Sriram Natarajan <Sriram.Natarajan at sun.com> wrote: > > sure. I can re(assign) it . Btw, my manager is taking this issue within > OpenSolaris web site folks so that this issue is improved at the earliest > > > > thanks > sriram > > David Van Couvering wrote: > I never received an email for the bug I logged. It appears to be lost > in the ocean of issues. I even tried a search and couldn't find > anything! > > All I can think of is for some reason my bug didn't make it through. > I'll try one more time... I think I'll assign it to "Ruby" and > hopefully that will end up with your team, right? > > David > > On Nov 30, 2007 1:38 PM, Sriram Natarajan <Sriram.Natarajan at sun.com> wrote: > > > Only folks like you , can help us improve the web site experience. I > constantly write to website-discuss at opensolaris.org with my thought (and > some time it can be a rant :-) ). Can you please post your thoughts to > website-discuss at opensolaris.org with your site experience so that other > potential customers doesn't get turned off by the incompetence of the site > maintainers > > thanks a ton for your patience and follow up > Sriram > > David Van Couvering wrote: > Hm, what a terrible UI! I logged the bug and it said "issue logged" > and didn't tell me the bug id. I have not received any email, and when > I went to the search page, I couldn't even search for those bugs that > I logged. Goodness gracious, how do you guys work with this system? > > > Fortunately, within Sun we have nice tools to file and work with bugs. > Unfortunately, they are not web based and they need to be run within Sun > Internal network and hence folks outside Sun is not able to effectively use > these tools. So, we are not able to expose these nice tools to potential > customers. We have been told (for long time now) that nice web based tools > (like bugzilla) will be put up on OpenSolaris but obviously that hasn't > materialized till to-date > > I hope at some point I'll get email, right now I'm at a complete loss > as to the bug id. > > > Once you get an email, can you please provide the bug id so that we can > change it to the appropriate category and follow it up > > Thanks for your patience. > > thanks > sriram > > David > > On Nov 30, 2007 12:26 PM, Sriram Natarajan <Sriram.Natarajan at sun.com> > wrote: > > > Hi > Here is the URL to raise a CR or RFE against any of the OpenSolaris > projects. > http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa > > Unfortunately, we don't have yet have 'webstack' or 'php' or 'mysql' > category defined yet. I guess, some one need to follow up and create such a > category until then you can probably create using 'other' sub category . > Please provide the us the bug number so that we can follow it up as well > > thanks > sriram > > > > David Van Couvering wrote: > Thanks, Ludo. Where is the right place to log issues/enhancement > requests for the web stack? > > David > > On Nov 30, 2007 7:28 AM, ludo <ludo at dev.java.net> wrote: > > > David Van Couvering wrote: > > > It looks like the mysql user doesn't exist on my SXDE 09/07 machine. > > Is that going to be fixed in build 79 where AMP is included? > > Not automatically via the pkgadd std installation. > See the man mysql page for sxde b79 when available. > But if you want to use the easy to use SAMP Options UI I developed, the > init script would correctly set up your environement before you can use > the Start Menus or the entire stack. > > > > > It seems > silly to provide a web stack, and the user has to manually create the > mysql user. > > With Postgres, the 'postgres' user (role actually) already exists with > the default install > > > We are fully aware of that. The issue is much more complex with ARC, and > the way Opensolaris components are build. > Fyi, in the future IPS system, there is currently no way to 'add a user' > or run a script (postinstall or preremove), and I think the discussion > is still going on for the best way to do that or not. > Today, in the sfw consolidation, one must modify a global file to add > users, which is not a nice way since it breaks the component model (pick > and choose the packages you need for your distro: you would need N > global files, so the are not global anymore...) > > > > > > Also, with Postgres, when you start the service, it automatically > initializes the database. > > We need the same thing for mysql - > > We are in b79, assuming the mysql user is there. > > > all the user should have to do is > start the service and then be ready to start programming against > MySQL. We don't want a lot of painful steps for a developer before > they can get started. > > > Of course we don't want. > > > If you've already taken care of this, great! If you haven't, please > consider doing this, or let me know why this doesn't work. I'm happy > to be educated, and Lord knows I regularly need it :) > > > The main issue as you'll discover painfuly is the current state of the > Sfw consolidation and the processes to get 1 line of code changed there:) > > Things will get better soon, be patient, and keep sending the feedback > about opensolaris user experience...This is the most important area we > need to concentrate. > Solaris is pretty good as is for core ux guys. Let's add the dev > experience on top of it so that people like me and myself can be > productive without becoming geeks, > Ludo > > > > > Thanks, > > David > > P.S. is there a way for me to install and test the web stack stuff > prior to build 79? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- David W. Van Couvering http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com
