Is the Wikimedia Foundation responsible for people's emotions?

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:51 AM John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, there should always be a response to all bugs. Without a response
> the impression in the reporting wiki-community would be "nobody cares
> about our bug reports".
>
> Someone in the community finds a bug, and it is posted and discussed
> in the community. Then another one writes a report in a task at
> Phabricator, but nothing further happen.  A couple of months later the
> first one ask again about the bug, but does not get a satisfactory
> answer, and gets angry. This usually happen in cycles of a few months
> to a year. We must somehow break those cycles, they are bad and
> disruptive and creates a "us and them" attitude.
>
> Users from the wiki-communities don't visit Phabricator to see all
> those small administrative tasks, they see the notes from the official
> and unofficial tech ambassadors, and they see the changes in the
> "tracked" templates. The templates are only changed when the bugs are
> closed for whatever reason, which could take years. Creating
> additional manual interventions does not work, the process must be
> simpler and more efficient.
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:23 PM Andre Klapper <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2019-03-12 at 00:29 +0100, John Erling Blad wrote:
> > > It seems like some projects simply put everything coming from external
> > > sources into deep freezer or add "need volunteer". If they respond at
> > > all. In some cases it could be that the projects are defunc.
> >
> > What's the expectation based on that there should always be a response?
> > If a bug report has all info needed to allow someone to reproduce and
> > work on it, anyone is free to pick it up and work on it if anyone is
> > interested in working on it. No further response needed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > andre
> > --
> > Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
> > https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
> >
> >
> >
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