On Jan 20, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Jonathon -- Improov wrote:
Jacques,Are you the only one reviewing the submissions? Any way the rest of us can help? I see the long "customer service-like" thread at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-552 . Or perhaps if you're a committer, you should be relieved of many other duties?
This is always a fun topic... and has been discussed in a few recent threads on the mailing lists.
First off I agree that Jacques has been helping a lot and in spite of some mis-steps (more about that later), Jacques has been helping a lot, and it's really great, and people submitting patches that he gets through should thank him.
So why are things this way? Why are there so many open issues? Why can't committers keep up? Why don't we just add more committers? Why don't you just make ME a committer so I can get my stuff in?
The answers, my friend, are in... the following documents: Contributors Best Practices: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/r Committers Roles and Responsibilities: http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/mQI just revised and updated these documents as a few things in them weren't quite correct (like the process for adding a committer), and there were a few questions, including parts of this one, that I think weren't adequately addressed.
After reading through those documents you should have a better understanding of how things work, or don't work. By definition if there is a back log of issues, there is a shortage of volunteer-time. It's that simple. Hopefully this is mostly caused by people not knowing where or how they can help, and now hopefully those documents address that much better.
-David
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