OpenJDK bugtracker became public

Hi, Habr!

I have great news for you: OpenJDK-shnaya JIRA has become open to all! Address: http://bugs.openjdk.java.net

In the old Sanovo bugtracker, the numbering of bugs was transparent, independent of the project. In JIRA, everything is a little different: each project, as you know, has a certain prefix (in our case, this is “JDK”), after which there is a hyphen and a bug number. Accordingly, the fact that earlier in bugs.sun.com was a bug 4459438 in JBS received the number JDK-4459438 .
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This event has long been expected in the Java community. Inside Oracle, it was not a secret for a long time, but it was expected that the new error tracking system was officially announced next week at the JavaOne conference . Looks like they are not tolerated! For the first time, the news slipped into public last night on Bernard's twitter.



JIRA with the proud name of Java Bug System (JBS) appeared about a year ago and came to replace the old Sanovsky bugtracker, the java part of which is known to the general user as bugs.sun.com . What promoted the transition?

In my opinion, switching to JIRA was necessary for many reasons, including:

• The old bugtracker was not perfect, besides it should be supported
• Access to the old bugtracker could only be done from the Sun / Oracle internal network.
• Access to the Java part of the old bugtracker for people who are not employees of Sun / Oracle could only be done through the bugs.sun.com face, which was also not perfect. For example, there are some problems with finding bugs.
• Since 2006, as part of the OpenJDK project, the community has been actively involved in the development of the Java platform. Needed new tools.
• These tools have become mail lists. But now they look like greetings from the 20th century, aren't they?
• Finally, JIRA is the coolest bug tracking platform common today.

What makes the transition to JIRA Java-organizations, Java-community and the company Oracle? Firstly, life will simply become more convenient and familiar. This is really a step forward! Secondly, public mail lists will be a little unloaded, and in the next year or two many items from mail lists will be transferred to JBS JIRA. Well, as a result, thirdly, I believe that the number of communications between developers of the Java platform within Oracle and other developers will increase, which should have a positive impact on the quality of the final product (Java SE 7 updates, Java SE 8, Java SE 9 and. etc.)

A detailed description of the new bugtracker is here .

So you are welcome to file bugs. And of course, fix it!