[Bug 480024] [jdt] Fund a developer to triage and fix the most frequently occurring errors in JDT

Bugzilla Link	480024
Status	NEW
Importance	P3 normal
Reported	Oct 17, 2015 09:25 EDT
Modified	Nov 17, 2020 07:53 EDT
Reporter	Marcel Bruch

Description

JDT core is lacking resources. There are 3 committers for JDT core which have to split their time to fix bugs in JDT and implement Java 9 support. See [1] for a recent summary.

The FEEP funding would be well spent on 1) asking existing "spare time" committers to become full-time committers, or 2) hire another 1-2 developers (or companies that have resources) to support the core team to fix bugs (i.e., not adding new features or work on Java 9 support).

FWIW, if no spare time committers can be found it might be easier to find developers that can work on jdt-ui and thus free existing resources there which, in turn, can help in jdt-core.

[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/jdt-dev/msg00816.html