Hi, are the pact-jvm issues looked at at all? Or is there another way to repord bugs/weird behaviour?

The issues are looked into, why do you ask?

Because I added 2 issues 2 weeks ago and haven't received any comment at all so far. If that takes a while maybe a bot would be good to automated write a reply with the time we need to expect to get an answer or something?

it’s an open source project and there are many other open issues so the maintainer probably hasn’t had the time to look at it. i’ve added some comments to your issue posts. you can also repost in here for community support where other pact-jvm users could help

@Yousaf Nabi (pactflow.io) thanks for the help. I tried that here with one of the questions, but unfortunately did not receive an answer that helped me. As you wrote my next step is to create a small project reflecting the problem

Thanks for the additional context Ruth! You’ve done a good job so far of reaching out via the various areas, as you can see, there was some community support although it didn’t manage to solve your issue this time, it was nice to see. the library author has replied this morning on your original issue here https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-jvm/issues/1726#issuecomment-1801200011 Hope that helps, and let us know what issues you are seeing after trying the steps in the above issue. Appreciate it can be a bit frustrating when you are stuck and you aren’t getting the answer, sometimes just pinging up like you have done, we will definitely take your points on board here

If that takes a while maybe a bot would be good to automated write a reply with the time we need to expect to get an answer or something?

In our weekly maintainers meeting, held via #C05HCLA3C93 - Triage is high on our agenda at the moment, because we are aware most are doing this as a hobby, very very few as full time jobs, but want to make sure that people don’t feel stuck and lost, so the automated bot is something we have considered.

I totally apprechiate that time is scares especially in open source projects. So maybe a bot just answering something like "please keep in mind it can take a while to answer" would be helpful, as it is more transparent that the issue is not missed, but maybe just in a queue of too much work for too little time 🙂