Re: Hidden agendas and Soft Targets [Was: Re: Warning fixes]

hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 18.10.2006, 15:31 +0530 schrieb Harish Krishnaswamy:
> When bugzilla or e-p does not get addressed by the module
> hackers, a friendly poke or a pop-up radar usually gets it covered - as
> Andre/Matthew Barnes would know.

yes, but should poking really be necessary all the time?
it ain't cool to *beg* for important stuff to get done, especially if
the important stuff is not that hard to recognize (in bugzilla, we have
target milestones, we have severity/priority - what else do we need?
another wiki page, another mailing list rant/discussion as we had for
the 2.6 UI changes?). 
use bugzilla correctly, be careful with target milestones, take a look
at the "urgent" or "blocker" issues regularly, review patches - this
only seems to have happened partially for the last development cycles,
and i unfortunately don't expect any improvements in the short run. :-/

> Shreyas :  Thanks for voicing your support. Also, let me clarify that
> non-Novell maintainers reviewing/approving patches has been in-place for
> years even while you were on board with us.  
[...]
> Andre has been approving i18n/Documentation related
> patches for more than a release now.

i did because i was annoyed of waiting for nothing to happen, so this
isn't an example of potential non-novell maintainers, but quite
contrary: the reviews weren't fast enough or didn't take place at all,
so at some point i told myself: well, even if i break something, why
should i care? better to break something from time to time, then to not
have any progress at all.

> If anyone is interested in shouldering responsibilities, you are
> welcome.  Just start reviewing patches and build your contributions.

means that everybody can review patches and commit them, without asking
the maintainer? sounds interesting. :-)

(no offense intended here, i'd just like to share my impression of the
current state.)

cheers,
andre

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