[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT Bug Day (was Re: PDT (was Re: Dev2QA do

[Nick Boldt <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Agreed, silence on bugs and untended patches are certainly deterrents 
from contribution.

However...

This Friday marks the inaugural PDT Bug Day [0], which includes the 
following bugs [1] tagged by the PDT devs as being viable for community 
contribution, according to the Bug Day guidelines.

Zend is clearly started a dialog with us, the community, about 
soliciting input and contribution, and so the ball has begun to roll.

If you're keen to help out, please drop by #eclipse-bugs on Friday! For 
more information, see the FAQ [2].

[0]http://wiki.eclipse.org/BugDay/May_2008
[1]https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Tools&product=PDT&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=bugday&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_severity=enhancement&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&known_name=pdt_open_bugs&query_based_on=pdt_open_bugs&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
[2]http://wiki.eclipse.org/BugDay/FAQ


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