On 09/30/2010 01:22 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
So, let me be clear on what you're proposing: you acknowledge that the
triage process is backlogged. Your proposal is to put extra workload
onto the core team - the one group that is already a bottleneck in the
process.
Pretty much. I just don't put it the way you do.
Triage process is backlogged not because of some strange reason. People
need motivation to do daunting work and I can't imagine what could
motivate enough volunteers to triage other people bugs regularly. And no
amount documentation will fix this. A committer on the other hand is not
just a volunteer. Being a committer of a high-profile open-source is a
nice ego boost and committers receive more moral compensation than
casual contributors. They are higher in an implicit project hierarchy
and it matters to people.
As for bottleneck, I propose this only in light of Jacob's decision to
increase the number of committers. This is certainly a prerequisite.
It's not a question that committers are overloaded and this why this
conversation has started.
To put it *really* short: I'm not trying to find extra work for
committers, I'm bluntly saying that no one else would ever do it. So we
have to find ways to do it. And having more committers and a simpler
decision process does help here.
If you estimate that it takes an hour to close a ticket
This is BTW another, purely technical, problem. It shouldn't take an
hour to close a ticket if it has proper tests. I was testing patches
during various sprints and one big thing that I learned is that our
whole test suit needs a deep refactoring to be simpler and faster. But
this is another story...
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