Do you know what's wrong with Jira on maven-release-plugin MRELEASE? It's growing nearly to 200 open bugs. It looks like the community use to fix 5 in each release. Maybe the community should start closing irrelevant bugs which better helps concentrating on more relevant bugs.
We started this strategy in surefire plugin and closed irrelevant bugs. This iteration has happened several times already. Then we released cca 30 fixed issues in every major release. This way we are now under 100 open issues and still cutting the bugs down. I have a strategy to handle new bug as it comes in Jira and ask the originator to fix it and offering some hints to him/her. This way we have got few more contributors in surefire project. Even if the contributor does not implement properly, it always saves my time and I can still modify his implementation or ask him to reimplement it. Maybe it's the only question if we really want to have better statistics and fix more bugs. Maybe it's a question of resources like number of committers. We have some contributors on GitHub, so maybe it is as simple as to ask them get this position. Cheers
