[ogb-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Shawn Walker]

On 25/09/2007, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
> > ie. Instead of trying to get part of bugster out of Sun, create
> > a new bug reporting database
>
> The dealbreaker for me is that there is no easy way to initially
> populate this new database with the hundreds of thousands of open
> bugs/rfes already in bugster, which effectively means that nobody
> without bugster access will be able to fix/manage bugs, and if they
> have bugster access, they have no need to use something else...

Right, but we're always going to have that problem. Sun has
proprietary, confidential data in there, and there's no way practical
way to scrub those millions of bits of data properly.

We may just have to pay this price and move on...the important thing
will be whether we can deal with new bugs in both systems going
forward.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth