2. The number of bugs that need fixing grows steadily: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=9728&states=1,8,13,1.... How do we encourage more people to help fix bugs? How do we help people fix bugs?
One way to get these bugs fixed is to assign them to people. Ideally, project.module would have a few modes and on drupal.org we would configure it so that project.module maintainers could assign bugs to users. We might even emulate other systems where bugs get assgined and then accepted. That would make it more clear that the assignee is actually working on his assigned stuff. Alas, this requires development. A non development way to increase bug fixing is to do a bug sprint like we did in Amsterdam. One person would be coordinator in #drupal, handing out the bugs. everyone else fixes and verifies and prunes the bug list. -moshe