I was reading through a bunch of the bug and feature requests entered into the Ximian bug database and was struck by how so many of them have not had any resolution for years while being requested over and over again.
Is this because there are not enough people volunteering to fix bugs and/or add features? Is this because of a philosophical lack of willingness to include some of the feature requests (many of whom seem quite reasonable)? A little of both or maybe something else? I am just curious given that I am looking at starting to make some changes in Evolution for my own use and that of my business clients and want to work as much as possible with Evolution developers as opposed to independent of them. But I don't want to even bother helping out if there is some sort of philosophical mind set against adding new features or some such. In the end I may just have to incorporate the features that I and perhaps some of my clients might want in my own little "fork" rather than waiting for something to make it into the main tree, so this issue may be mute but I am mainly just curious as to why it seems to take so long to act on a bug or a feature request. I suppose I should also take into account that I was only viewing those things that were not resolved and that the context of seeing this against the great numbers that may have been resolved already is missing. Any insight on this would be appreciated. Thanks. Carlos _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
