Marc, I'm sorry that you feel this way. While I can understand your frustration, I think your conclusion is a bit harsh and over the top. I could now become defensive, or apologetic, or polemic, but I really think that kind of discussion is a waste of time. Let's just look at your actutal problems instead. From what I understand, the bug that haunts you the most is #374918? I promise to look at your patch for that bug soon. If there are any other showstopper bugs you need fixed please let me know.
Hannes On Nov 10, 9:34 pm, Marc Guillemot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Norris, David & Hannes, (*) > > at the beginning of the year I've asked in this list if the project was > half asleep. Now I rather think that its state narrows the clinical dead. > > It seems to me that improvements in the project occur only occasionally > when the personal interest of some committer is involved. The number of > open bugs without any sign of life of any Rhino committer is high. > Particularly alarming, *even issues with patch (and unit test) are > totally ignored*. This really gives the very displeasing impression that > users don't matter at all. I've tried to contribute to improve the > situation but a rhino is a heavy beast and it is not particularly > pleasant to find (nearly) only silence. > As Attila wrote that he would "welcome if [you] could attract new > developers", I've mentioned my interest but except Attila, none of the > committers even react to it. I can understand that you find that I don't > have the skills for the project and I don't care to be refused, but I've > found this absolute lack of reaction offending. This is something that I > haven't seen in any other project. > > It is OK for me if you consider Rhino as your personal project that > should work only for your particular usage and when you don't care > if/how it is used elsewhere. This is rather uncommon for an open source > project, but I can accept it. In this case please mention it explicitly > to avoid wrong expectations. > > Rhino has a far longer history than most other dynamic languages on the > JVM, nevertheless if you compare its activity with the one of projects > like Groovy, JRuby or Jython for instance, it looks really bad for > Rhino. It's a pity because this surely a point that users have to > consider when they have to choose between languages. > > I guess that this post won't change things at all (and perhaps even > motivate committers to create a filter that automatically deletes my > posts ;-)) and that Rhino will continue to vegetate. I really hope to be > wrong, but the evolution of the situation over the last months makes me > really pessimistic. > > Cheers, > Marc. > > (*) as far as I know, Attila is still a committer but my critics are not > addressed to him as he is the only one who is really present in this list. > > -- > Web:http://www.efficient-webtesting.com > Blog:http://mguillem.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
