Re:Those were known bugs. (Score 1)

It seems to me that fault lies in both directions here.

Really? its my fault some Oracle software has a bug?
I don't have a paycheck in my mail from "ORACLE CORPORATION" so there is no "fault" here.

I volunteered my time on a Saturday, along with another developer, to test our open source project with the java 7 RC, and we happened to find it on that day. You *do* know we have other things to do than test Oracle's products for them, right?

Oracle had plenty of time to deal with this bug (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134). When we got no response from filing our bug report, we brought it straight to the hotspot-dev list: Openjdk developers told us how they did not know about the bug, because someone at oracle had filed the bug in the wrong category, runtime instead of compiler2 (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2011-July/005963.html). Then the Openjdk developers fixed the bug in one day, but told us there was no chance the bug fix would make it into the GA.

The problem is not us, the problem is that the bug report is "Priority 4: Low"

At Apache, when shit like this happens, we mark it "Blocker" and don't release until its fixed.

We sometimes do this even when its not our bug, such as in March when I spent another Saturday chasing down another Oracle hotspot bug (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2975), that we found during our release vote.