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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21592 WSDL2Java doc. should start with description of what tool does ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-15 01:09 ------- 1. by leaving bugs open they stay open, meaning they dont get ignored. It is only when they get closed that they are forgotten. Dont worry. 2. open source projects are the work of collaborative efforts; the dividing line between users and developers is very blurred, and if you can get people to take on the workload of fixing things they want, then everyone benefits. 3. in the absence of any formal team, the original developers of the docs & code have often moved on, so there is nobody to take direct responsibility for the work other than 'the dev team as whole', who often get too distracted by functionality issues to address documentation faults. Even though axis docs do need to be vastly improved :( 4. If you are going to the effort of submitting detailed errors on the docs, it is not much extra work to actually provided corrected documentation. This should rapidly be picked up and patched in (as unlike code patches, it rarely breaks things), so you would get an immediate reward for your effort. And, coming to the system without much background does give you insight into how things should be documented better for beginners. 5. If you dont submit patches, the bug will stay open and will probably at some indeterminate in the time in the future get corrected, but there is no way of determining when it will be fixed. None of the axis bugreps have been open long enough to have fifth birthday poems written to them (unlike say the java.sun.com bugs), but they do get fixed in an uncontrolled manner. So yes, OSS projects do usually bounce back bugreps to users with 'a fix would be good', because the users are the developers. This is bad -you have to do more work yourself- and good: the developers are working to the users deadlines and care about your problems. but if you dont want to submit patches, fine. The bugreps will accrue, and probably get addressed eventually.
