Items files not being fully parsed at startup

Ross, thank you, I’ve read a number of your posts in the development forum where you have helped a number of folks with technical issues and am impressed with your programing knowledge and hope you continue to contribute to OpenHAB. Rich and I have however been around here a little longer and know this guy has a tendency to climb up on his soapbox and suggest things should be done a certain way and when people gently explain to him it is an all volunteer effort and if he believes something should be done a certain way, then he is welcome to volunteer to contribute, he simply answers with a wall of text that ultimately just wastes everyone’s time.
Again, you seem to really know your stuff and I for one hope you don’t take this the wrong way. If you like I can search a little and provide several examples of his antics

ok, just for fun here is a good one where Kim suggest someone should maintain a database of which binding are being currently developed and which ones have been abandoned. Rich suggests the task is a fool’s errant but encourages Kim to do it if he feels like it
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