Is there a way to get a list of all the issues filed through the NetCAT program?
Gj On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:36 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jiri, hello Alexander, > > here are my thoughts. > > > 1. Tickets in strange state > > > > The luxury of dedicated people paid by Sun/Oracle to pay attention to > > bugs, develop features, respond to e-mails and the like are gone. With > > the same argument statement "...the dev team cannot address each > > issue..." makes no sense because there is no dev team. The dev team is > > you. > > I am afraid I support Alexander here. I bet there are people who have no > idea how to code using Java, yet still use NetBeans (e.g. PHP, HTML, C/C++). > > > Complaining about issues being ignored equals showing own > > misunderstanding how open source software development works. Good news > > is that you can filter the issues reported in October, trying to > > reproduce them one by one, adding your investigations and setting their > > status and/or priorities correctly. When do you plan to do that? > > I also got impression (from what I have read on pages dedicated to the > process) that we should focus on testing only. > > But, at the same time, I agree with you, Jiri. If there are no dedicated > developers anymore (I mean, people who are actually paid for developing > NetBeans), then, solving issues lays on volunteers and I won't raise this > kind of objections (not tackling the issues in Jira). Simply, the landscape > of NetBeans has changed and I need to adapt to it. > > > 2. Tribe leaders are useless > > > > I am afraid I disagree. True tribe leaders are precious asset for > > NetCAT. They simply act as managers, communicating with their tribe > > members, finding their strengths/weaknesses, then distributing the work > > load, periodically checking the status/progress, reminding about > > incomplete tasks, triaging issues, escalating the most serious ones to > > the NetCAT program coordinators, organizing meetups, etc. If these do > > not exist, everything falls on plates of NetCAT program coordinators > > which are obviously overloaded which leaves NetCAT participants with > > impression of chaos, ignorance or frustration. > > OK, maybe it's still happening, maybe all these activities are still > taking place, but, to be honest, I haven't seen that this time that much. > > I remember older editions of NetCAT, with weekly reports summarizing > activities, providing information to whole team, so it knew where it was > standing at any, given, time. So, this time, I thought that NetCAT was > targeted more towards solo players who want to decide for themselves how to > update docs, what to choose for testing, etc. Which, in fact, suits me > better :) > > Michal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > >
