Guys,
Keep in mind that you might not actually want to turn
this mailing list into a user question and answer mailing
list; you'd probably want a separate one for that purpose.
But take note that it's super easy to set up a feed
monitor for the forum(s), which are actively used, even if
so few of you monitor them:
It's configured like this for Thunderbird:
In the
end, monitoring this or a mailing list (that you'd likely
want to filter into folder so you can manage your inbox
effectively) is really not so entirely different. Perhaps
this ought to be more a question of what's actually best
for the people asking the questions rather than what's
preferred by the people who might or might not choose to
answer them.
Also note
that many questions are of course directed to the
Newcomers forum because users don't generally know where
to go to ask questions. Nitin and I are effectively the
only people (committers) who answer questions there, most
often to direct people to the right forum, though I would
never direct people to the Platform forum because I know
it's generally not well monitored; if there is to be an
answer there, it will likely come from me, so rather
pointless to redirect people there.
I don't
get the general impression that as a whole we facilitate a
good general impression to the community in terms of
helpfulness on the forum nor responsiveness on Bugzillas.
We simply all generally have better things to do than
that. That being said, compliments to the JDT team;
they're doing an excellent job!
Even from
personal experience on this front, I often shake my head.
I update my full Eclipse SDK IDE installation, pulling all
the repos and reresolving the TP to import any new
projects but then low and behold I have new build path
errors in my workspace; not a sea of red, but just a bit
of red flotsam. So I figure out why something is wrong
(yet again), open a bug, and commit to Gerrit a trivial
fix:
Surprisingly
it gets a review quickly! But there it sits now, so new
contributors will see not a sea of red but some annoying
flotsam, which of course they'll see as an Oomph problem,
when in fact it's simply a fundamental challenge to manage
what will typically be a sea of red unless properly
managed.
It all
sometimes make me question, why should I care? But then
Rolf sends a note and I am heartened that I'm not the only
one who cares.
While I'm
complaining, I must say the sea or orange does not inspire
great confidence either:
Nor is
the fact that many repos are dirty after a build terribly
helpful to contributors. I could try to commit fixes for
all those things too, mostly proper .gitignores, but the
question remains, should I personally care? Will someone
look at and complete the Gerrit contributions?
Regards,
Ed
On
22.08.2019 19:14, Rolf Theunissen wrote:
I noticed that the mentioned example bugs got some
attention. For reference, to get an overview of all
bugs reported by users that don't have Bugzilla edit
rights that did not receive comments, use the
following query:
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