Poch Apache Attitude Rant !

I’ve been banging my head on a few configuration problems lately setting up a proper development environment. During which I encountered and worked around some annoying bugs. Some of which in Maven.

I thought that in the brotherhood of open software development, it was regarded desirable to contribute. That’s how it stays alive. I also thought that reporting bugs was regarded as a valid way of contribution. I’m regularly doing this because I am way too busy to delve into the code of each tool I’m using. Certainly if there’s a workaround. But always do I report the problem in some way. To make at least the owner aware of the problem. And indirectly the users too as Google is indexing everything anyway.

I thought – naively it seems – it would be appreciated. Not so at Apache. Things seems to be different there. And unfortunately it’s not the first time I’m getting the this kind of replies from them.

https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-833 => Where’s the implementation for the change you propose ?

https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-832 => Log a different ticket for that last sentence. I’m too lazy to do it myself.

Hey guys – this is the open source community at work ! Not some brainless commercial corporate operation. If you like rules that much, go work for them. Or become one of their managers if you have such a disdain for what people do for your project.