Gav... wrote: > <quote who="David Crossley"> > > Gav.... wrote: > >> > >> Just on a year a go, a Jira Issue was set up entitled 'Forrest Strategy > >> and > >> direction' - seems appropriate to revisit that issue and see what ideas > >> there have been dealt with, what we still need to deal with and what we > >> can > >> drop. > >> > >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-630 > >> > >> (Strange how a jira issue of Critical Priority is also unscheduled, just > >> seems a little odd to me) > > > > We can only schedule an issue to be fixed before the > > next release when there is something to be actually done. > > That FOR-630 is just a bag of notes. I reckon that we have > > already extracted any that really need to be done for > > the 0.8 release. > > Ok, so do you think it should be closed?
No. It has other stuff beyond 0.8 that is not yet attended to. > > Perhaps there are more, but really we are trying to trim > > the list down, rather than find more :-) > > Absolutely, I thought it relevent to this thread so just > thought it worth a mention, otherwise why have it in the > Jira for a year sitting there and not being useful. So that people can get frustrated by it and eventually do something about it. Only partially joking. I reckon that is is still useful. Some more of the items need to eventually be split off into their own issues. I say eventually because i am desperately trying to focus us on the release. > You may have noticed I just started to go through some of > the unscheduled issues to see if any could be revisited, > fixed, closed or left as is. As has been pointed out before > users (that term again) get disheartened to see their issues > sat there not been looked at, even if just to comment on it. > > And I like tying up loose ends if possible :) I fully agree with you. It is an opensource downer when one's contributions are not followed up. However, we need to look at the flip-side. Perhaps it would be better to let them wait a bit longer. If you, Gavin, have time to attend to general stuff, then it would probably be better spent focussing on the currently scheduled issues. Other committers have already tried a few times to look at the unscheduled list. Looking at it again means we need to respond to your questions, and so cannot attend to other stuff. -David
