Note that JIRA is not the perfect metric to begin with. My most recent contribution started as an user complaining on the users@ mailing list, which I then forwarded to dev@, then I did a GitHub PR directly and after confirmation that the fix works I pushed directly in the repo. JIRA was not involved at all.
Considering the pending release though you might think that we are in a feature freeze of sorts. I assume that any fix I would add would have to perhaps be on another branch, etc. so it's not worth the trouble doing all that when I can wait a bit. Lack of committer status didn't stop anybody at any point to create patches and PRs. I guess money would be a great motivator to speed things up a bit. Otherwise it's about scratching your own itch which doesn't necessarily mean anything somebody else reported on JIRA. --emi -------- Original Message -------- On 15 February 2018 12:21 PM, cowwoc <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi, > > I don't mean to offend anyone (not trying to point any fingers, really) > but I want to raise an issue for discussion. > > When Netbeans was moved to Apache I saw a lot of activity in the mailing > list. Everyone was excited and that was great but now I am seeing an > extremely low rate of participation by non-Oracle employees (see >https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/graphs/contributors) and > the overall commit frequency over the past couple of weeks is extremely > low (see >https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/graphs/commit-activity). > > I am bringing this to your attention because looking at JIRA's "Created > vs Resolved" issues for the past 30 days we are seeing an exponential > growth of bug reports but a flat amount of resolved issues: >https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ConfigureReport.jspa?projectOrFilterId=project-12320634&periodName=daily&daysprevious=30&cumulative=true&versionLabels=major&selectedProjectId=12320634&reportKey=com.atlassian.jira.jira-core-reports-plugin%3Acreatedvsresolved-report&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED|113ee1575eff5807f4be21c1f06ce3f96e46f8b2|lout&Next=Next > > Speaking from my personal experience as an end-user, I think we've got a > long way to go in terms of fixing regressions before I would consider > jumping from version 8.2 to 9.0. I am routinely running into annoying UI > bugs that were not present in 8.2. Yes, we now have JDK 9 support and > this is a big deal but this yet relevant in my day-to-day work (my > projects use Java 8). My primary concern is using the IDE that will make > me the most productive as a developer. The nightly builds are a step > backwards in that regard. > > Anyway, I just wanted to bring up this issue for discussion. I remember > a lot of people initially asked to be listed as committers, and I'm > wondering where they all went, what (if anything) has turned them off > from contributing at this time, and what can be done to bring them back. > > Reminder: As mentioned in the past, I not have the time to commit fixes > myself. I am intentionally limiting myself to filing bug reports and > giving you feedback as an end-user. I hope you will respect that scope. > > Thank you, > Gili > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
