Eclipse used to track bugs in Bugzilla, but have deprecated it.
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There appears to be a migration plan to something new, but updates ended in 2023.
The Bugzilla notice says that bugs are split across and / based on unspecified criteria, however both these systems are source control systems, not bug tracking systems, and are only useful to someone who modifies the Eclipse code and knows what each code element is called and where each code element lives.
Where can a bug be raised in the Eclipse project where:
- The person raising the bug does not know which component is involved; and
- The bug is likely to be read and triaged, rather than ignored for being in the wrong place?
Eclipse used to track bugs in Bugzilla, but have deprecated it.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
There appears to be a migration plan to something new, but updates ended in 2023.
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Gerrit/Gerrit-and-Bugzilla-deprecation-and-migration-plan
The Bugzilla notice says that bugs are split across https://github.com/eclipse and https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/ based on unspecified criteria, however both these systems are source control systems, not bug tracking systems, and are only useful to someone who modifies the Eclipse code and knows what each code element is called and where each code element lives.
Where can a bug be raised in the Eclipse project where:
- The person raising the bug does not know which component is involved; and
- The bug is likely to be read and triaged, rather than ignored for being in the wrong place?
- If they need a better explanation of how to report bugs (and/or better promote an existing one), you can raise that at gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues – teapot418 Commented Feb 6 at 15:05
- 1 The Eclipse platform can be found at github.com/eclipse-platform and Eclipse JDT at github.com/eclipse-jdt Please always provide a minimal reproducible example. In the rare cases where you have reported to the wrong project, the issue will be moved for you or you will be instructed what to do. Please consider providing a pull request that fixes the issue. – howlger Commented Feb 6 at 15:10
- @teapot418 There is no “they” in open source. If you have an idea of how something can be done better, then please report it. Please note that the helpdesk is for the infrastructure of all Eclipse (Foundation) projects, most of which have nothing to do with the Eclipse desktop IDE. – howlger Commented Feb 6 at 15:18
- @teapot418 Please don't add comments trying to teach open source maintainers how to be open source maintainers. The purpose of asking the question is so that the right answer reaches to the top of google search results, instead of the obsolete answer there now. – Graham Leggett Commented Feb 8 at 10:37
1 Answer
Reset to default 1Short answer: It depends on the Eclipse project and you must know to which part your problem relates.
Look at https://projects.eclipse.org/ you see there are 21 pages with 20 entries each. At this list there is directly a "Report an Issue" link per project.
If you got a problem with the core of the Eclipse IDE look at "Eclipse Platform". The issues are now in GitHub. For the UI it is issues of eclipse.platform.ui. If it is more internal it might be directly eclipse.platform.
The problem with the different projects is still the same as in the old Bugzilla. Not easy for an user to direct the feedback to the correct project :/