(cross-posted since if fits both lists IMHO, sorry for the inconvenience) Remember the thread I launched, back in December, about having reached 10000 changesets to the codebase since it went into SVN ? http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2008-December/010374.html
Well, a few hours ago, Trac saw the opening (and closing) of the 10000th ticket! http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10000 Congrats, hackers and testers! :) I'd also like to point out a bit of trivia about 2.8: among all the referenced milestones in Trac, http://core.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap?show=all 2.8 is the one with the most tickets opened (815, which if memory serves me well is the first time a milestone passes the 800 line), and more importantly with the most tickets closed (758 and counting). Usually milestones end their lifetime with a couple dozens (if not a couple hundreds, most often) of unresolved tickets, which are then swept under the rug of the next minor or major version. But this time, thanks to extensions to the release date (and I'm thinking also the tireless participation of external developers, among which one of the most notable is Denis de Bernardy, who devoted himself full-time to tickets-resolving ever since the 24-hour-marathon (http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9758#comment:10), we've seen a steady decrease in number of open tickets, even thought this major release has seen more open tickets than any other previous release: we're at 758 closed tickets already, and the closest to that is v2.5 with 750 closed tickets, then v2.7 with 668 closed tickets. Seeing as both 2.5 and 2.7 both saw major interface changes to WordPress, and that 2.8 doesn't not have much new interface apart from the widgets sections, it looks to me as if the core developers chose to push tis version's deadline so that they could "profit" from the goodwill of said external developers, in order to try and close as many long-standing tickets with the release, so as to to start on a cleaner-than-ever slate when comes the time to produce 2.9. Sure, 2.9 already has 398 open tickets under its sleeves, and "Future release" has 339, but it looks like that, for the first time in a long time (I might be wrong), we'll have a major release where no lone ticket was left standing by unattended, so I'm hopeful this will make for one of the sturdier version of WordPress since the 2.0 line In any case, I'd like to use this e-mail to send another congrats to everyone involved in this release: core devs, external devs, reviewers, testers and people with an opinion who are willing to fight for them with suggestions and, even better, patches. -- Xavier Borderie _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
