To qualify my "outsider" status: I'm a software engineer, but I've never written a webapp. I spent the past couple weeks researching web frameworks, came across Django, and decided it smelled right. I started working on an application yesterday, and I'm quite pleased at the level of productivity that I've seen so far. However, my productivity could be much higher.
The productivity killer?
- I keep running into show-stopper bugs.
- Most of these bugs have been investigated and fixed by users, and
a patch has been sitting in the bug tracker for a few weeks (or more).
I know that submitted patches are often wrong, require careful review, and it's not as simple as applying the patch and committing it. It's a time-consuming process. Malcolm Tredinnick ran through a bunch of bugs last night, but there are still 112 active tickets with patches remaining for review. That's a lot of patches for a small group of committers, and all but four of them are currently assigned to one person (Adrian).
So, my plea: I like Django, and I'd like to put a lot of resources behind using and improving it. If new committers were pulled from the ranks of solid contributors, new users of Django (like me!) could be assured that their contributions won't languish, and we won't run into nasty bugs that have already been found and fixed by another user.
That would be dandy. -landonf
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