[drupal-devel] Improvements abandoned? (was: bug squashing session)

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Chris Cook wrote:

> On 10/11/05, Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter at physik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > No. You and everybody else is welcome to use the subscription
> > feature of the project module to get issues mailed.
>
> The subscription feature is great because it notifies people who use
> it and are interested in the module. This does not mean that it
> notifies the owner/manager of the module though.
>
> It isn't clear to me if all modules have a manager (someone who not
> only maintains the code but also maintains the issue queue for it). I
> assume the answer is yes insofar as people are willing to commit but I
> suspect the situation could be improved somehow.

There are module maintainers for contrib modules and there are module
maintainers for core modules. Managing the issue queue is however a
community effort. At least for core.

> > > Maybe getting bug reports sent to this mailing list again would help
> > > make things along.
> >
> > Not for me. Since I am already subscribed through the project module it
> > annoys me a great deal.
>
> I agree. I prefer to see development discussion here and subscribe for
> bugspam. Spamming the entire list should not be the fallback to not
> having module owners, in my opinion.

Only core issues only got mailed here in the past.

Cheers,
	Gerhard