Pe vineri, 8 martie 2019, bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> a scris: > "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).
How many successful commercial projects leave customer issues unresolved for years because they're working on something else now? I can name a few which used to do that because they were monopolies, but even those improved eventually, pressured by the market. There are companies that require weekly reports of progress on customer issues, others that don't release until all bugs are closed one way or another etc. The discussion at https://lists.gt.net/wiki/wikitech/889489 is relevant, I believe. The request there was to not decline low-priority issues that might be resolved by volunteers and this clearly increases the number of open bugs (as I said, there are good reasons for that :) ). There were a number of proposals on how to track such issues so that reporters have a clear image of the status of the bugs. Have any of them been tried by at least one of the teams at wmf? If so, is there a way to share the results with other teams? If not, how can we convince the wmf to give them a chance? Strainu > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
