On Jun 23, 2006, at 1:09 PM, eric kustarz wrote:
How about it folks - would it be a good idea for me to explore
what it takes to get such a bug/RFE setup implemented for the ZFS
community on OpenSolaris.org?
what's wrong with http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/index.jsp
for finding bugs?
There's a LOT of things wrong with how b.s.o is presented.
For us non-Sun people, b.s.o is a one-way ticket, and only when we're
lucky.
First, yes, we can search on bug keywords and categories. Great. Used
to need a Sunsolve acct for this. But once we do that, we can only
hope that the bugs we want to read about in detail aren't comprised
solely of "See Notes" and that's it. It's like seeing "To be
continued..." right before the climax of a movie. Useless and
frustrating.
Second, while there is a way for Joe Random to submit a bug, there is
zero way for Joe Random to interact with a bug. No voting to bump or
drop a priority, no easy way to find hot topic bugs, no way to add
one's own notes to the issue. I guess the desperate just have to clog
the system with new bugs and have them marked as dups or badger
someone with a sun.com email address to do it for us.
Third, much of end-to-end bug servicing from a non-Sun perspective is
still an uphill battle, from acronyms and terms used to policies and
coordination of work, e.g. "Is someone in Sun or elsewhere already
working on this particular bug I'm interested in?" and questions
which would stem from that basic one.
In summary, the bug/RFE process is still a mystery after 1 year, and
who knows if it'll stay the ginormous tease that it currently is.
Really, it's still no better than if one had a Sunsolve account in
years' past.
/dale
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