On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 12:54 PM Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > juippis' whole email nails the issue, but I'd just like to add that > there's kind of a baseline at ~400/~450 or so where everything below > that is PRs for new packages or long-obsolete stuff nobody closed yet, > or where we're waiting on the submitter. It's just that going ahead > and going over those is time-consuming and means we're spending less > time on active PRs which need looking at.
++ In general the Gentoo workflow tends to be a bit different from a lot of other projects as well, with quite a bit more individual ownership/interest. Many distros just stick to core packages in a main repo, and consign everything else to user-maintained repos/overlays/etc, or tiers with lower expectations for quality. Then you have all the build-related issues that can be hard to reproduce/test, that other distros simply don't have to worry about because they only support one or two build configurations. Another thing I've seen in fairly large projects is auto-closing of issues/bugs/PRs/etc. If your submission sits around for more than a few weeks without getting merged, a bot comes along and helpfully marks it closed. That of course results in a nice low open-issue count, but of course that doesn't mean those issues are actually fixed. -- Rich
