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

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