Re: [Evolution-hackers] Seeming lack of timely bug or feature request "fixes"...why?

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Hello,

You are attempting to draw conclusions from the number of open bugs 
without considering all bugs.  Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

If you have a sincere desire to help, produce good quality code to fix a 
problem.  We can never have enough people volunteering to be part of the 
solution.

Jon

Carlos Gonzalez wrote:
> I was reading through a bunch of the bug and feature requests entered
> into the Ximian bug database and was struck by how so many of them have
> not had any resolution for years while being requested over and over
> again.  
>
> Is this because there are not enough people volunteering to fix bugs
> and/or add features?  
>
> Is this because of a philosophical lack of willingness to include some
> of the feature requests (many of whom seem quite reasonable)?  
>
> A little of both or maybe something else?  
>
> I am just curious given that I am looking at starting to make some
> changes in Evolution for my own use and that of my business clients and
> want to work as much as possible with Evolution developers as opposed to
> independent of them.  But I don't want to even bother helping out if
> there is some sort of philosophical mind set against adding new features
> or some such.  In the end I may just have to incorporate the features
> that I and perhaps some of my clients might want in my own little "fork"
> rather than waiting for something to make it into the main tree, so this
> issue may be mute but I am mainly just curious as to why it seems to
> take so long to act on a bug or a feature request.  
>
> I suppose I should also take into account that I was only viewing those
> things that were not resolved and that the context of seeing this
> against the great numbers that may have been resolved already is
> missing.  
>
> Any insight on this would be appreciated.  
>
> Thanks. 
>
> Carlos