OpenJDK bug database: JIRA pilot deployment (original) (raw)

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Mon Oct 31 10:35:08 PDT 2011


We (i.e., Oracle) have decided to move ahead with a pilot deployment of JIRA for use by the OpenJDK Community.

In our view JIRA offers several important advantages over the principal competition, namely Bugzilla [1][2]:

It's true that JIRA is not an open-source product, and I understand why some people are uncomfortable with that. What's important, however, is that the data in this JIRA instance will be openly available as required by the Bylaws [3].

We hope to deploy a JIRA pilot instance in the next few months for use by non-JDK Projects within OpenJDK. If that goes well then we'd look to migrate the current JDK bug corpus from Oracle's legacy internal system to JIRA by mid-2012.

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/web-discuss/2011-May/000221.html [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mo/openjdk/bugsystem/BugzillaJIRAComparison.pdf [3] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#_A



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