Oracle EBS Techstack Blog: When will my Oracle bug fix or enhancement request be released?
Posted: 11 Jan 2013 12:22 PM PST
As EBS customers using mission-critical software, you are naturally curious about when you will get fixes for bugs that you've reported. It's also understandable that you'd like to know when certain enhancements will be delivered.
Oracle tracks all bugs and enhancement requests in a single massive database, which we use for released and unreleased products. This centralized database is an amazing accomplishment: it's a treasure trove of detailed technical analyses, debates, development decisions, and future plans.
Locked down by default
Oracle's Revenue Recognition policies place strict boundaries on the type of information that can be shared about unreleased products. The centralized nature of the bug database makes for some conundrums around external disclosure, since it can sometimes be very tricky to determine whether something is a bug fix or an enhancement, and whether the codeline is already released or not.