As a rule, I would suggest that we avoid assigning tickets to ourselves or to each other, or even to ourselves, until we have actually, that minute, started work on the ticket. In an open volunteer environment, pre-assigning tickets undermines volunteerism and and promotes bottlenecking.
Pre-assigning tickets undermines volunteerism in two ways. First, it discourages other volunteers from stepping up and working on the ticket themselves. Second, it implies that the volunteer is not a volunteer, but is now compelled to work on this ticket. Unfortunately, we all have competing responsibilities to which the ASF takes a "back seat", and it's hard to guarantee when we will be able to do something, if we are not doing it right now. The volunteerism problems then tend to create a bottleneck. Other people shy away because it's been pre-assigned, and, often, the pre-assignee can't work on it "now" because of competing responsibilities. A key concept is that everyone on the PMC is jointly and severally responsible for the code. We are all entitled, and encourged, to work on any aspect of the codebase. We don't use the "maintainer" module, and if one us can't work on something, then another one of us should step up and take care of business. -Ted. On Nov 4, 2007 6:01 AM, Antonio Petrelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > I closed the WW-1942 because the remaining failing test case was not > related to Java 6 and/or Windows, so I closed it and opened a new one. > https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-2291 > I have to apologize Don (Brown) since I closed this issue, and I > assigned him the new issue, but it was the only way to clean the > ambiguity in the description of the issue and the real facts. Sorry > Don! > > Ciao > Antonio > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- HTH, Ted <http://www.husted.com/ted/blog/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
