Re:Patch Submission Process is Abysmal (Score 1)

When you find a bug and have a fix, do you get to just check it in to the project yourself? Of course not. You have to send the patch in for review. Projects' source trees would become insane if any random person could check code in. Similarly, for now, as people work on fixes, we're (yes I work for Sun) buddying them up with a sponsor who takes care of stuff like paperwork, and process that have to be completed before a fix can be integrated into the code tree. Part of the sponsor process is also due to the fact that the source tree lives within Sun (at least for write-only access). We're still building up the infrastructure to do external hosting; it's not trivial to move a huge (30,000+ files) with a long history in an archaic SCM that nobody else uses from inside of Sun's firewall to outside. A lot of our existing build tools assume things like always being able to access the repository via NFS. There's still work to be done, I won't argue that - but I don't believe that it prohibits the project from being considered "open".