I don't think we need to do something. If you look at projects with same size of Rails or closer you will see we are very active.
We just released a major feature and, well, I think we deserve some kind of rest. When we need to work you will see that issue page decreasing like crazy. Rafael Mendonça França http://twitter.com/rafaelfranca https://github.com/rafaelfranca On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:54 AM, "Marc Schütz" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the responses so far. This certainly wasn't meant to criticize > the people who work on Rails and put in a lot of their free time. > > It's just that, quite obviously, for whatever reasons, the Rails team > isn't able to keep up with the large number of pull requests (and bug > reports anyway). It seems Andrew Vit also talked about this about a month > ago, which I hadn't seen before I posted. > > It was suggested in Andrew's thread and in this one to triage bugs and > help reviewing. However, while this might be useful, I don't think lack of > reviewing is the real problem. > > I took a closer look at the open PR's on page 4 (i.e. to avoid the really > new ones). Of these, there are: > > New features: 5 > Refactoring: 7 > Bug fixes: 11 > Documentation: 2 > Total: 25 > > With votes from the community: 2 > With comm. feedback/suggestions: 8 > Open questions for submitter/WIP: 6 > Feedback from core team: 12 > > This means that for most PRs, there has already been some kind of > review/feedback from either the community or the core team (i.e. those that > I think are members). "Open questions/WIP" are those where the submitter > still needs to do something. There are some others with open questions, but > these are waiting for feedback from the core team. Many of the PR's end > with someone requesting a specific team members opinion, after which > nothing happens. > > So... I'd like to ask again, what can be done? Give more people commit > access? Funding for some core team members to be able to dedicate more time > to Rails development? Maybe a better way to prioritize PR's, as Andrew > suggested? Make it easier to decide which features are desired? Other > options? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
