I agree with Matt. He and Richard are doing a great job but cannot quite keep up. They are doing a fantastic job given the time available to them.
I’ve been a bit slack the last two weeks and will be so for the next four or so but I’ll attempt to catch up. Pauli -- Dr Paul Dale | Cryptographer | Network Security & Encryption Phone +61 7 3031 7217 Oracle Australia > On 26 Mar 2019, at 7:53 pm, Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> wrote: > > > > On 25/03/2019 20:10, Matthew Lindner wrote: >> Hello OpenSSL Team, >> >> The issues and pull requests on github are largely getting ignored, I >> know the team is busy on the new release but please spend some time on >> these as well. > > I don't think this is a fair characterisation. I see all posts to issues and > PRs > in github for openssl and I see *lots* of activity. > > If I use the github "insights" page I see that over the last month 67 new > issues > were raised and 46 were closed. However those numbers are skewed by issues in > very recent days (its shortly after a weekend and neither Richard or myself > were > around yesterday). Over the last week 23 new issues were raised and 8 were > closed. Subtracting one from the other I see that for the period 1 week ago > to 1 > month ago 44 new issues were raised and 38 were closed. > > So the real problem there is a mismatch between the opening rate and the > closing > rate, i.e. it is NOT that we are ignoring these issues. I see it more as a > resource issue - we are seeing issues raised at a greater rate than we have > resources to handle. The best answer to that IMO is to somehow encourage a > greater participation from the community in helping us to keep on top of these > things. Not sure how best to achieve that though. > > I can't do the same analysis for PRs because github doesn't detect properly > when > we merge PRs (because we don't use the github facility for doing that). I > would > expect to see somewhat similar numbers though. > > > Matt
