On 10/14/2013 05:45 PM, Marcel Bruch
wrote:
So, there is definitely a lack of human resources.
Getting this part of the EPP packages doesn't require much human
resources.
I don't know. Do you know (for your company)?
My employer is totally fine with having people contributing to
Eclipse projects, it's even more or less part of our job. So in that
case, it's not an employer or company issue. I guess all people
reading that are encouraged by their employer to contribute, so I
don't think we can blame those companies for not providing enough.
From my experience with contributing to JDT or Platform in general,
the bottleneck is currently the ability to get contributions
reviewed. There are currently only a few people who are able/skilled
to make review for JDT patches, so getting reviews takes lot of
time, especially if your contributions is not part of the Platform
team Roadmap.
The fact that there is a roadmap for Platform makes it more
difficult to get external contributions
considered/reviewed/approved. Ideally, this would be solved by
having much more diversity in the Platform contributors, and not
having them all following a roadmap. However, I have to admit that
it is difficult to become a "good enough" contributor in
Platform/JDT to be made a committer, so it's difficult to provide
this diversity. And the upcoming support for Java 8 doesn't help. So
we are in a deadlock for now.
What we can hope is that once Java 8 is done, their will be more
space for community contributions inside Platform & JDT.
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