Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-09 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 09/06/2013 19:38, Johannes Barop ha scritto: If you find an important bug/issue marked as AssumedStale then talk about it. All the bugs I opened were supposed to be important to me, otherwise I wouldn't have spent time to open the issues. Well, all of them were closed with "AssumedStale" wi

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-09 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 09/06/2013 14:48, Johannes Barop ha scritto: I had some free time lately where I wanted to work on some random issue. It turned out that it is very hard to find one because all of junk floating around in the tracker. I still don't understand (and never will) why old non-fixed bug reports sh

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-04 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 04/06/2013 11:11, Thomas Broyer ha scritto: 1. the issue tracker has been neglected for years, leading to many issues open and never triaged; we need to clean that up 2. we can't realistically spend half an hour for each and every of these issues: 1500 issues or so would take 750 man

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-04 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 04/06/2013 10:36, Ed Bras ha scritto: Please put yourself in their position (GWT dev member)... Imagine you just entered the GWT dev team and have to clean up 5000 open issues ?... What would you do ?... I would start to evaluate them to see if they need a fix or not, and put a priority on

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-04 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 04/06/2013 09:50, Ed ha scritto: I am surprised and disappointed by your reactions. My reaction on this all: Please be positive and not so negative. Clearly your glass is half empty and mine is half full (and I am using GWT for about 7 years now)... Please follow the GWT news, G+ GWT posts, Ra

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-04 Thread Mauro Molinari
Il 04/06/2013 09:24, David ha scritto: This attitude does not give me a lot of confidence that GWT is going the right direction, so I will probably be holding off in advocating GWT as a dependable tool for enterprise developments. Bug fixes are way more important than new functionality. We have t

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-06-04 Thread Mauro Molinari
I think Thomas's comments on http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=6962 and the "spring cleaning" thing say it all on the attitude of GWT devs toward bug reports: they are just an annoyance and the fact that the issue tracker has a lot of very old reports (not even consid

Re: Overuse of "AssumedStale" Issue Tag

2013-05-29 Thread Mauro Molinari
I also recently received a notification about an issue I was following, because it has been set as "AssumedStale", an issue that must be still present, since I have no evidence that any fix for it has ever been done. Really, I can't understand what are the plans for GWT by Google. Will it be su