Re: bugs and bug tracking

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 03:33:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > On 10/06/2015 10:57 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > >On 10/06/2015 10:17 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > >Speaking of which ... this project is rich in skilled users who are
> > >involved in the community but don't code. Bug triage is exactly the
> > >kind of thing very part-time community supporters can do, if we make it
> > >easy for them to do.
> >
> > That is an understatement. There is a huge pool of non-hackers that can
> > help contribute to this sort of thing.
>
> It was said, way back when, "adding Windows support will add a huge pool
> of Windows-only developers". I'm not sure that the impact was really
> all that big there. We have a few Windows-enabled people, but how many
> of them are Windows-only?
>
> We similarly said, "moving the TODO list to the wiki will add a huge
> pool of users that cannot edit the current CVS-only file". To date,
> most of what has happened is that the old items have become stale and
> Bruce continues to do 99% of the work of maintaining it.
>
> So I am dubious that people that currently do not contribute will
> contribute in the future just because we change the system.

Agreed, though that did work for the commitfest --- I almost never deal
with those patches, for good and bad.

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