There is an impression among many community members, myself included, that Foundation development generally prioritizes new features over fixing existing problems. Foundation teams will sprint for a few months to put together a minimum viable product, release it, then move on to the new hotness, leaving user requests, bugfixes, and the like behind. It often seems that the only way to get a bug fixed is to get a volunteer developer to look at it. This is likely unintentional, but it happens nonetheless.
Putting a higher priority within the Foundation on cleaning up old toys before taking out new ones is necessary for the long-term stability of the projects. ACN On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:05 PM Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For example, of the 30 odd backend errors reported in June, 14 were still > > open a month later in July [1], and 12 were still open β three months later > > β in September. The majority of these haven't even yet been triaged, > > assigned assigned or otherwise acknowledged. And meanwhile we've got more > > (non-JavaScript) stuff from July, August and September adding pressure. We > > have to do better. > > > > -- Timo > > > > This feels like it needs some higher level coordination. Like perhaps > managers getting together and deciding production issues are a priority and > diverting resources dynamically to address them. Building an awesome new > feature will have a lot less impact if the users are hurting from growing > disrepair. It seems to me like if individual contributors and maintainers > could have solved this problem, they would have by now. I'm a little > worried that the only viable solution right now seems like heroes stepping > up to fix these bugs. > > Concretely, I think expanding something like the Core Platform Team's > clinic duty might work. Does anyone have a very rough idea of the time it > would take to tackle 293 (wow we went up by a dozen since this thread > started) tasks? > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
