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« on: January 04, 2013, 08:45:16 pm »
As I'm the manager of OpenJDK and others I think I should write some sentences.
I don't want to go into a large discussion here, as it would lead to nothing in my eyes.
As one of the bugs was for a special Java App and the App Dev fixed the thinggy I closed the bug. I really see no reason to let such a bug open. If there are more Apps behaving the same, open a new bugrepport. And we will for sure look at all bugs when time permits.
About sponsoring:
If a milestone is funded, does that automatically mean it has to be bugfree? Every milestone needs testing and we test against some Java apps. But we really can't test everything.
Does it also mean, that when a milestone is funded, that bugs have to be fixed, if no more funding is left? I don't think so.
New versions:
I'm afraid that a 1.7 will not be around very soon, as we really lack of sponsoring. And you can be assured i would like to have a 1.7 very soon.
Developers:
A deeloper need his salery as you need one too. Dmitriy is fulltime emploeed and does nothing else than Java, Odin, Flash, Qt4 and so on. So he needs his salery and I need sponsorings to pay it to him. Without the help of some larger companies and individuals like Mensys, bww bitwise works, OS2VOICE) we could even not be where we are.
I hope this clears the situation a bit and if not please mail me privat, as I don't want to discuss some decission we do in public.
regards
Silvan
(lead of many projects)