"tracked" does not mean someone is planning to work on it. This could be for a lot of reasons, maybe the bug is unclear, maybe its not obvious what a good way to fix is, maybe nobody cares (This sounds harsh, but the simple truth is, different things have different people caring about them, and some parts just don't have anyone).
This is not really a paid vs unpaid thing. Volunteer projects have a big backlog of bugs. Commercial projects also have a backlog or things they just don't intend to fix (although usually big commercial projects keep the list of bug reports secret). I really think its no different from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Backlog isn't getting any smaller. That's just the natural way of things. Its a bit easier to yell {{sofixit}} on wiki than it is to yell it about technical tasks, as technical stuff by their very nature require specialized knowledge (Although i would argue that lots of tasks on wiki also require specialized knowledge). At the end of the day, to get a task fixed, someone who knows how to do it (Or is willing to learn how to do it) needs to be interested in doing it. -- Brian On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:31 PM John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The backlog for bugs are pretty large (that is an understatement), > even for bugs with know fixes and available patches. Is there any real > plan to start fixing them? Shall I keep telling the community the bugs > are "tracked"? > > /jeblad > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
