3) We sit and twiddle our thumbs and hope that people notice the issue enough
to discuss it for 200 comments so that we have enough data points to be able
to determine a majority consensus and then implement that, and pray that when
Dries or webchick get to the issue they agree with whatever that decision was
rather than kill the issue with the fatal "let's discuss this more" comment.
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A place that lists any issues, big developments related to core developments? This should be able to be done by people who are not coders too, so there may be a pool of followers out there who can help?
It could help focus attention on issues that are not code related (or maybe even code related issues).