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by miiiiiike 1228 days ago
If there's anything I've learned from using Google projects it's this: It's not going to get fixed.

It almost doesn't matter what it is.

If you've used any Google OSS project seriously you're going to come across an obvious defect and run to GitHub to open an issue. But, there's already an open issue for the problem.. And it's been open for almost as long as the project has existed.

It will have an inscrutable priority and day after day new comments will pop up saying "Hey, I'm having this issue too. Can I contribute a fix?" But, a pull request with a fix has sat, unreviewed, for almost as long as the issue has been open.

And then it comes: "This issue has been automatically closed due to inactivity."
3 comments
mda 1228 days ago
Well it seems there are 11K open issues and 66K closed issues in their github page.

So maybe some issues got fixed at least?

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phist_mcgee 1228 days ago
The dreaded, 'closed due to inactivity' strikes again.
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nomel 1228 days ago
Every time I see "closed due to inactivity" implemented, the outcome is that new feature get added rather than fixing existing problems, because the memory of those problems only persists in the users day to day life. The developers have no useful record.

But, I doubt that can scale. I imagine there's some happy place sitting near semi-automated "duplicate" recognition, and a voting system, to give the users a voice. Closing due to inactivity is never a happy place (unless it's sitting waiting for required user feedback maybe).

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Andrex 1228 days ago
This is why dogfooding is extremely important. You want the people making the reams to feel those 1000 papercuts.
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eptgrant 1228 days ago
Agreed, still unable to take a high res photo from any device using their own camera plugin.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58163#issuecomment...

Sighhh. Maybe one day.

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lern_too_spel 1228 days ago
You haven't really used a Google open source project unless you've filed a bug, had it assigned, had it automatically closed after months of inactivity by some PM cleaning possibly obsolete bugs, reopened the bug, rinsed, and repeated for a decade.
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