OpenJDK's openness is its most valuable feature in our fast-paced world. We can be sure that it will never vanish and be forgotten when it is needed. If its support is discontinued, we can support it ourselves. We could fix bugs independently, since the code is open.

However, OpenJDK, as well as the Oracle Java implementation, still contains a lot of issues. Some of them are security issues and should be fixed as soon as possible. Some of the issues may be almost invisible or even valuable only for a virtually nonexistent percent of customers. They might never be fixed in production JDK, but everyone has an opportunity to try to do it for himself/herself.

OpenJDK in the past used a Bugzilla bug tracker to track bugs. Bugzilla is a well-known, but morally outdated project, initially written in 1998 by Terry Weissman. It was open source from the beginning, and it is used even now by thousands of people around the world. It is very simple and easy to use.

However, some time ago, the...