Fluteman wrote:
This ticket is 4 years old. What's it take to get it handled?
Pidgin is maintained by voluntary effort. As you didn't provide a link I haven't looked this up to see if there is some other reason why it is not being acted upon, but generally, they only certain way of getting anything fixed is for you to contribute the tested code yourself. A summary of the issue in your posting might also have given me a clue as to why nothing had been done.
(Some things will not get done because they require access to proprietary information. Some will not get done because they would be incompatible with the licensing of Pidgin. Some may not get done because people think they are the wrong thing for Pidgin to do. However a lot of things don't get done simply because no-one with the time, skills, legal ability, and inclination to donate code thinks them important enough.)
Note that multiple independent reports of a problem will often increase the priority.
Incidentally, this also applies in the commercial software world. There will be a lot of "bug" reports that never get effort assigned to them because effort is in short supply and they are just not important enough. The main difference in open source, is that anyone who thinks they are important enough can contribute a solution - they don't have to get project management approval. Fixing problems tends to reduce with the age, as, if they have lasted unfixed that long, they are not impacting the sales of the product.
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