In the last few weeks I was able to review a few hundred (about 400) issues that were inserted in the issue tracker.
These are some thoughts:
1. People have the habit to request features for the Drupal version they
use, instead of requesting them in the HEAD.
We could have a way to stop users from adding these requests to versions other than HEAD
2. Support requests stay months without a single response!
In
my opinion there is no gain in putting support requests in the issue
tracker. A forum is the right place to discuss support, and if in some
cases these requests generate a feature or a bug report then they would
be inserted in the right place.
OTOH, if we continue to have support requests in the tracker, we
should had them a "valid for" date.(e.g. close automatically all suport
requests older than 4 weeks)
3. Patches (and bugs) stay in older queues for too long.
It seems that no one has interest in working and reviewing older patches.
I
think that to have a good issue flow, we need to be more responsable in
solving ASAP older bugs and not let them increase as it happens today.
Regards,
Fernando Silva
On 9/5/06, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04 Sep 2006, at 09:40, Augustin (Beginner) wrote:
> The same scenario is repeated at each release cycle, because we, the
> community, do not take the time to review other people's patches,
> scratch
> other people's itches.
I agree. I often spend 2+ hours a day reviewing patches, and when I
post an occasional patch myself, it doesn't always get the quality
reviews it deserves. (I understand that my position is exceptional.)
If people spent time reviewing your patches, try to return the favor,
and review other people's patches. Of course, you're free to do what
you want, but it sounds like a good, social guideline.
Not getting a decent review for your patch turns people off, and we
should avoid letting this happen. Quite the contrary, we should
provide them with constructive reviews and help them get on board.
Some of them will 'stick' and help review patches too.
Now we're in code freeze mode, this is particularly important. Let's
do our best to make new people stick and to review an insane amount
of patches together. :)
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