Shawn Walker wrote:

> The problem is that most developers have the expectation that if they
> take the time to resolve an issue that their fix will be integrated.

Well, a small spoonful of reality may be helpful in addressing that expectation.
Ideally, we'd all have time for everything.  Anyone must realize that no one
does.

> As I said before, the real solution is to eliminate the need for Sun
> to do so much work.
> 
> If Sun doesn't get out of the rut of being responsible for every bug
> fix and this triage mess, they are never going to benefit from
> external contributors in the way that open source projects typically
> do.

We agree 100% on this, obviously.



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