... >> Such a request already exists: >> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460 > Sometimes I wonder if the bugzilla database has outgrown its usefulness > - at least for end users. Old bugs and feature requests may as well not > exist now that there are over 700 open entries in the db. Most > everything just gets marked 'Future'. What are the actual chances that > a feature request nearly two years old will ever be implemented? >
The company I work for has twenty years worth of products, and the ERs are currently in the 86,000 range. Product Managers go through it on a regular basis and close the ERs that aren't going to get fixed soon -- but first they copy them onto index cards and hang them on a wall by the breakroom on the developer's floor. Will stuff get fixed? Depends some on the number of developers, but it depends even more on the development direction and what developers are passionate about. A vast swatch of bugs were recently obviated by architectural changes that made them moot, which of course introduced new bugs... but would the architecture change have happened if the developers were being held to "fix all these first"? Another decent chunk of bugs could be obviated by another pretty minor architectural change, but the lead developer in that functional area doesn't want to do it, so those keep getting bandaided. Eventually the weight of bandaids leads to a de facto architectural change. Forget rocket surgery, software development is the most complex human endeavor. It ain't pretty, but just be thankful that the SDI bugzilla is open to the public and as small as it is :) -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander" - traditional _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
