Christophe's mail reminds me a bit of Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman's talk "Open Source Projects and Poisonous People" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-3E8pyjFo
One of the many good suggestions they propose is to have a "Patch Manager" - someone who makes sure that patches submitted via Bugzilla or directly to the list don't get lost in the noise and that people get some feedback, even if it's just a one liner like "Thanks, we're looking into this", "Nope, that's really not in our scope", etc... I've watched this talk three or four times by now, and every time motivates me to look into our bug tracker. The overwhelming number of (currently) 1133 open issues, however soon dampens my enthusiasm. http://s.apache.org/a2open http://s.apache.org/a2patchavail (184 right now) I've been thinking for some time now that we really need a hackathlon or bug-squashing event to drastically reduce those. Or at least clean out the invalid ones. The ones which have already been (accidentally) fixed, etc.. i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/
