My intention was to help you by reporting a bug that you might not be aware of, and I’ve already gone out of my way to do that. I didn’t really want to make a ton of accounts or listen to a guilt trip. I am hardworking and busy too, the hostility is uncalled for and not any way that is going to earn support for yourself or this project.
Good day.
From: andrea.aime@…84… [mailto:andrea.aime@…84…] On Behalf Of Andrea Aime
Sent: 26 February 2015 17:48
To: Ben Norris
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Geoserver constantly reorders wfs.xml, pita for config in source control
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ben Norris <ben.norris@…6901…> wrote:
I suspect it will be trivial to someone who knows the codebase where the config is loaded (either that or impossible for some obscure reason J ). Learning it and then making the change is considerably more work, which unfortunately I don’t have time for.
It’s not a demand, just would be nice if someone stuck it on the list to look at at some point. Not sure why it is so difficult to make a suggestion/report a bug on this project?
Reporting a bug is actually relatively easy, just go here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS
The main issue is getting the ticket resolved, and that might become in fact hard if you
cannot solve it yourself.
There are basically two avenues. I’d say 90% of the work is done on paid contracts,
and core developers are working full time on those (it’s up to 9 hours a day for me).
And then there is the spare time, which is maybe 4 hours during the weekend (again, for me),
where “everything else” gets addressed, by priority and/or sometimes just because one
likes to do a certain thing and not another one
First order of priority is reviewing pull requests, in order to keep contributions coming from
non core devs flowing… that alone uses a lot of those 4 hours.
And then there is everything else, that is, all the open tickets in jira… and one ends up
working on those that can fit the remaining time (e…g, easy ones, possibly affecting a lot
of people).
And sometimes you really just want to work on something, like when I decided to put
back some life in the css support. I started July 2014, using half of my seaside vacations,
and continued working on it on and off until Christmas, where it used another half of
my winter vacations, and then madly over then next few weekends, in order to complete it
by the feature freeze (Jan 18 2015).
So… imagine how hard it must be to hear users complaints when you basically are throwing
all the time you have on the project, and yet it’s never enough…
but it’s a given that one cannot make everybody happy, and I’ve learned to live with it 
Cheers
Andrea
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