It has been 6 months since the GitHub Pull Requests #97, #84, #82, and #41 have been issued on XSF's 'xeps' repo.
- #41 has been approved by Council, which was noted 2 months ago by Lance. - #82 is waiting on the XEP author for incorporation. - #84 has found positive feedback in the community and I believe was also approved by council, so it's also waiting for the XEP author. - #97 is a trivial change and waiting for the author. And this are just some examples of the pending PRs. I don't want to blame anyone for not working actively in his spare time and unpaid on an open standard. That's not the point. But I want to point out that the current situation is demotivating for current contributors and possibly scares away future contributors. I'm not sure whether it's the job of the council or the board to decide about feasible solutions on how this situation can be improved. And I don't think it's only the task of the people in those two bodies. But ultimately they are the only ones who are able to implement and take care of solutions. And to be honest I believe there is no real solution. If we where for example to implement a timeout after which the responsibility of an XEP is handed over the council, then this would only put more workload on the council, which I don't think it is able to handle. I can only encourage the authors which have pending PRs for their XEPs to take care of them in a timely manner. And I like to encourage the other bodies, mostly council and the editors to watch for stalled matters. There are so many great people who work for free in their spare time on XMPP and believe in the idea of XMPP. It can only work if we work together. - Florian
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