Hi Jeff, we are not leaving issues as open since we want open issues to be a list of stuff we are actually working on. Issues have been left open on the GWT issue tracker for several years now leaving many people unable to find interesting work from the issue tracker. On the other hand clearly stating that we are not working on something will leave us with less users frustrated who won't feel like we are not addressing issues. We had many open issues that were not addressed in several years and people got angry about this. Like every project we have to steer our resources into the right direction to make the best product we can possibly make, so there is no way to address every issue. We have to pick our battles.
Me personally I want to have a small amount of issues in PatchesWelcome that external people can work on. (Having different levels of difficulty). I have a clear vision of how our issue tracking should work and I will make a proposal to the GWT steering committee about it once the clean up is finished. To me cleaning up the issue tracker is Google's job, but maintaining it going forward should be driven by the steering committee. It would just not be fair to handover a bloated tracker for the steering committee to start with. So I put in the effort. We have seen a lot of people stepping up and producing patches for issues they care about, helping those people to pick their battles is very important. So if you really like something in GWT that we did not prioritize on you can always provide a patch and we start from there. Hope this little background helps Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
