Study On Rejected Refactorings

[Jevgenija]

Dear contributors,

As part of a research team from Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) and University of Sannio (Italy), we have analyzed refactoring pull requests in codenameone/CodenameOne repository and are looking for developers for a short 5-10 min survey (https://usi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cO6Ayah0D6q4eSF). Would you please spare your time by answering some questions about refactoring-related contributions? We would greatly appreciate your input — it would help us understand how developers can improve the quality of refactoring contributions, and benefit the development process. The responses will be anonymized and handled confidentially! Thank you a lot!

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[Shai Almog]

Hi,

as far as I recall there weren't many (or even any) refactoring PRs.

I think I recall one and it was a pain because so much of our API is stable and public. As such backward compatibility is key and refactoring makes this pretty hard to keep. 

Also due to the breadth and depth of the project it's pretty hard to do wide sweeping changes as a third party contributor.