Maven core JIRA triage starting

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

Dear Maven Users,

Over the years, the JIRA for core Maven
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG) has accumulated many unresolved
issues. All this clutter makes it difficult to tell where the real
problems are. Further, many of these issues do not contain
self-contained test cases. Practically speaking, it is very difficult
to diagnose and resolve a problem without a test case 'on the bench.'
We developers would like to turn over a bit of a new leaf. We're going
to ask you to supply a test case to go with your bug reports. In
return, we're going to try very hard to attend to them. You can zip it
up and attach it to the jira. In case of vast size or complexity,
consider simplification,
or, failing that, github.

To clean up the current mess, we plan to start going through the
backlog. We'll add comments asking for test cases or other followup.
If we don't hear back in two weeks, we're going to close.

We're sorry for any frustration felt by the originators of
long-neglected reports, but we believe that this process will help us
be more responsive in the future.

--the devs

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