[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT (was Re: Dev2QA docs)

[third-chance@xxxxxx (Avalon)]

Hi Roy,

i would like to just pick up one of the points Bernd stated:

> Also, compared to most successful Open Source projects, the cooperation
> between Senior developers and users that are willing to contribute is very
> poor:
> - Bugs filed by users usually don't receive a response for months.

The following is just one example (based on my own experience).

I have created the issue 178602 15 months ago. In the mean time other 
people find that feature useful - even call it "a musthave for big 
projects". Two other issues have been marked as duplicate (the only 
response from the dev's).

Besides this there was no response from the dev's. Why should anybody 
start some coding on this? It is not possible to know if someone has 
already done some work on this, is currently doing something, how the 
chances of future integration are or even if any developer is even aware 
of this.

If just someone of the dev's would answer with something like "good idea, 
currently no time for this, other things have higher priority, but if 
someone can prove a patch we are willing to review and perhaps integrate 
it into the next release". With this feedback someone might feel motivated 
to spend some time on this.

I think the behavior of no response at all is what deters some of the 
people willing to contribute.

Even since someone provided a patch for this two month ago, there was no 
response of any kind. I doubt that this code (independently of it's code 
quality - i haven't looked into it) would ever move from the bug system to 
the code base.

May be the lack of communication must be resolved to encourage 
contributions from the community?

Regards, Thomas