On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Piscium <groknok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7 November 2010 21:40, Piscium <groknok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This seems to indicate that interaction with the community was not >> going well, or else that the OO team was so small that need not have >> time to examine and take a small patch. > > Correction: "need not" should be "did not". When youÂre a corporate employee, bugs reported by customers take precedence over the "small fixes". In other words, if you have an angry paying customer yelling on the phone that your application "x" is crashing or losing data, be sure that those kind of bugs will be worked on before everything else... I sat three years waiting for Netscape programmers (on Mozilla.org) to acknowledge some of my RFEs and bug reports on MozillaÂs Bugzilla and emails to devs had merit. They just werenÂt "priority" for them, as they were centered on Gecko / DHTML performance and other more "core" and critical bugs... while I often complained about petty things like making it easier to edit keyboard hotkeys.... In my experience lot of projects were affected by massive layoffs in SunÂs quest towards profits (aka shooting oneself in the foot :). Just my $0.02 FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
