On 2020-04-23 13:27, Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
Filing an issue is always the starting point, never the end point of
your involvement. In open source projects, you can't file an issue and
then walk away and hope someone will turn up to fix it. You need to
motivate others to fix it or fix it yourself or at least do some
investigation.
Actually, "never" is not the case! The first NB issue I filed had a
response within hours, a great discussion on how to resolve it, and a
fix ready in just a few days. The other one I have
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3378) is really a minor
UX tweak. I'm not going to lose sleep over it and I don't think it
should distract current contributors from working on more important stuff.
By contrast, a few days ago I submitted a patch to a project. A
maintainer flagged it for the next major release. Then the lead
developer came in, said "why not do it this way?" I noted that their
suggestion conflicted with an existing method, asked for suggestions
and... dead air. Seems maybe their question was rhetorical.
I also suppose that their time is far more important than my time, or
maybe there's so many rude reactions to closed issues that the dev
doesn't bother to read them anymore. Either way I'll make my
contributions elsewhere.
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