Re: [platform-dev] Vote to stop bug auto-closing in all Eclipse platform

[Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can still hear Erich Gamma say in Ludwigsburg: "Every bug report is a love letter" 💕. It is true, and we get a lot of love!

> I'm surprised that people still hope that a 20+ years old project that has been used constantly by 3 to 12 million users can have an empty backlog and expect its developers

> to resolve all its bugs/requirements. Maybe I've been only part of "dirty" teams and projects, but from my various experiences in a diverse set of organizations and goals, ...

I totally agree. Our high bug rate is a sign of success. if you have more devs than reports, you are in trouble.

Also, every rant about auto-closing a bug is someone who cares and maybe will now step up to help fix the issue.

Peace, Wim

 

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 9:02 AM Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 8:23 AM Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:

May be I'm living in some parallel universe, but in my world Eclipse Platform is utterly under-resourced

Every OSS project is as much resourced as people need it. If it's really under-resourced to its consumers, then their consumers can contribute resources. If they don't it implies that it's OK-resourced. And it's important that we understand that in the way we interact with consumers, and also in the way we plan to future of the project.

 

that's the main reson bugs aren't processed as it should be and therefore closed without any activity.

I'm surprised that people still hope that a 20+ years old project that has been used constantly by 3 to 12 million users can have an empty backlog and expect its developers to resolve all its bugs/requirements. Maybe I've been only part of "dirty" teams and projects, but from my various experiences in a diverse set of organizations and goals, I've never seen a team nor a project expecting to fix or implement every issue or idea someone ever faced. And the amount of open issues has always kept growing. There are priorities, there are things that no-one care about, there are ideas that were good years ago and are now bad... not everything must be done; filtering and prioritizing is a key factor of success. It's totally fine to tell people that as a committer you don't care enough about X to work on it but would welcome further resources to take care of X, and it's exactly what the auto-close bugs are about.

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