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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:55:10 +0300
From: "Alexey Petrenko" <alexey.a.petrenko@gmail.com>
To: dev@harmony.apache.org
Subject: Re: [general] When to bring a conversation out of JIRA...
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I agree that we need to bring out of the JIRA all the long or
not-obvious conversations.
And then add a link to this conversation to original JIRA issue.

SY, Alexey

2007/2/11, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com>:
> So over the last few days, I've been working off and on trying to
> debug some classloader stuff using eclipse.  it's been a hoot, since
> I don't know eclipse very well.
>
> When working w/ DRLVM as the runtime JRE for running and debugging
> unit tests, I ran into a few problems with what appeared to be
> related to JDPA et al.  Gregory pointed me to http://
> issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-3047, a JIRA on what appeared
> to be related issues.
>
> Now, reading through, I saw at least one thing (having to put the
> jdwp shared lib and the transport share lib) that I spent a bit of
> time figuring out myself. Reading down the thread, there seemed to be
> other interesting things in there.
>
> Now, I'm an advocate of having tech conversations out on the mailing
> list, rather than in JIRA, because I believe it's better for a whole
> bunch of reasons.  I also understand how it's appropriate for some
> comments to remain on JIRA if they tend to be narrow and specific.
>
> Should we try to suggest/mandate a practice that when a JIRA comment
> thread gets "long", that we make an effort to bring it out?  At least
> consciously evaluate if there is going to be broader interest (in
> this case) or broader experience that could help?
>
> I think we're missing some good opportunities to leverage the
> collective abilities of the community as well as expose information
> more broadly if we don't examine and address this.
>
> geir
>