[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: E4 / SWT 4.0

["Boris Bokowski" <Boris_Bokowski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Lee Anne" <nospam_kowalskilee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> ...
> And because the specific scenario occurred quite a few releases ago, and 
> the particular committer has moved on, it's not a concrete instance to 
> fix. I will keep your suggestion to contact Boris, just in case I run into 
> it again.

Yes, please do - I'd be happy to "mediate" if you feel that a committer on 
Eclipse Platform/JDT/PDE rejects a contribution without reason, or ignores 
something important.

> My main point though was that those of us who more often wear the "Eclipse 
> adopter/user" hat oftentimes don't know that we don't know all of the 
> reasons why a committer would reject or ignore something--while at the 
> same time, the committers might think all those things are "intuitively 
> obvious". :-) So the committers don't realize that we're asking for things 
> based on our perspective and not from the perspective of someone who knows 
> all the ins and outs of the code or architecture.

Yes, this seems to be very common. I am sure that in the past, I have marked 
bugs as wontfix or invalid without giving a full explanation as to why I 
made that decision. Sometimes, all it takes is another comment in bugzilla 
asking why, in a polite way. This is what I do when I don't understand the 
reaction for a bug that I reported, and sometimes it works pretty well.

Boris