[ogb-discuss] Priorities Poll #1: Deploy a public defect management system

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> The thoughts currently bouncing around my head are that we'll have 
> the bug db for OpenSolaris outside, and when a bug needs to be 
> backported into S10 or earlier releases, it will be filed in the 
> internal bug db as a placeholder with a description something like 
> "See http://bugs.opensolaris.org/query?bugid=XXXXXXX" for the 
> internal escalation/patch tools to work off.

Some of the open-source bug DBs have explicit support for tracking 
external bugs, e.g. where some 'distro' tracks a bug in the DB of 
some 'upstream' provider of a software component in that distro.

Theoretically adaptable to integrate with bugster, obviously...

regards,
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