> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 8:23 AM Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A large backlog by itself is not alarming. A growing one for > > components deployed to WMF sites is. It indicates insufficient > > attention is given to ongoing maintenance of projects after they are > > no longer "actively developed", which in turn creates resentment with > > the reporters. > > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 10:22 PM Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > > It really doesn't. The backlog is the contact surface between stuff that > exists and stuff that doesn't; all the things we don't have but which seem > realistically within reach. As functionality expands, that surface expands > too. It is a normal process. >
This isn't quite right, it only hold in some kind of simplified and idealized environment. There are several axis, not only what exist. For example existing and non-existing features might be on the same axis, while it is hard to say that functional vs non-functional code is on the same axis. If you say these two are on the same axis, "stuff that exists", then you end up arguing fixing bugs would be a problem as it expands the feature space, thus will increase the total space and then increase the technical debt. This will imply that introducing a critical bug will solve the technical debt, as the contact space will collapse. Fairly an acceptable solution! ;D _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
