I can still hear Erich Gamma say in Ludwigsburg: "Every bug report is a love letter" 💕. It is true, and we get a lot of love!
> I'm surprised that people still hope that a 20+ years old project that has been used constantly by 3 to 12 million users can have an empty backlog and expect its developers > to resolve all its bugs/requirements. Maybe I've been only part of "dirty" teams and projects, but from my various experiences in a diverse set of organizations and goals, ... I totally agree. Our high bug rate is a sign of success. if you have more devs than reports, you are in trouble. Also, every rant about auto-closing a bug is someone who cares and maybe will now step up to help fix the issue. Peace, Wim On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 9:02 AM Mickael Istria <mist...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 8:23 AM Andrey Loskutov <losku...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> May be I'm living in some parallel universe, but in my world Eclipse >> Platform is utterly under-resourced >> > > Every OSS project is as much resourced as people need it. If it's really > under-resourced to its consumers, then their consumers can contribute > resources. If they don't it implies that it's OK-resourced. And it's > important that we understand that in the way we interact with consumers, > and also in the way we plan to future of the project. > > >> that's the main reson bugs aren't processed as it should be and therefore >> closed without any activity. >> > > I'm surprised that people still hope that a 20+ years old project that has > been used constantly by 3 to 12 million users can have an empty backlog and > expect its developers to resolve all its bugs/requirements. Maybe I've been > only part of "dirty" teams and projects, but from my various experiences in > a diverse set of organizations and goals, I've never seen a team nor a > project expecting to fix or implement every issue or idea someone ever > faced. And the amount of open issues has always kept growing. There are > priorities, there are things that no-one care about, there are ideas that > were good years ago and are now bad... not everything must be done; > filtering and prioritizing is a key factor of success. It's totally fine to > tell people that as a committer you don't care enough about X to work on it > but would welcome further resources to take care of X, and it's exactly > what the auto-close bugs are about. > _______________________________________________ > platform-dev mailing list > platform-dev@eclipse.org > To unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev >
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