I don't want to beef, but I would really like to see the following bug to be resolved:

https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-6593

I have a lot of queries that really need that type of join fetching with a select distinct, but this bug makes it really hard for me. I hope I am not the only one that faces this problem and can suggest me any good workaround or so...
By using the workaround that is written in the bug report, I have to merge the duplicate objects myself and their subproperties, which is really annoying! I don't know how much work it would be to solve the issue, but there isn't even anything planned for this issue nor is someone assigned on it!

Hibernate is a really nice ORM-Framework but the response time on bug reports is annoying me. Even posting patches with the bug reports does not affect the response time as seen here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/JPA-20

Please be so kind and take care of the reported issues!