Kent Olsson wrote:
Please, give the list a proper answer in this topic! This is important,
though it is boring with bugs! :-)))
Just to relate some experience of open source with Acegi Security
(www.acegisecurity.org), of which I am project lead, I have found the
addition of issue tracking very valuable. Whilst I had initial
hesitation, as a project grows it's liberating being able to direct the
community to a particular tool to log bugs or feature suggestions. The
reason is that it acts as a managed list of tasks, which I can go and
deal with as and when I get time. The alternative is to track everything
manually, or respond instantly, which is possible in the beginning of an
open source project but simply doesn't scale in line with the community.
Qooxdoo is an incredible framework, and it *will* scale (assuming we can
get tabs to wrap as per my earlier email) ;-) so it's perhaps
worthwhile to put issue tracking in place. Core developers need to
remember that not every issue needs to be answered or addressed. Many
issues are marked as "won't fix" or "cannot duplicate" or "not enough
information". It doesn't require extra time overall. I've found it
actually saves me time overall, as I can devote specific days to
resolving issues (and I get a lot more done on such days than spending a
little bit of time resolving issues every day).
Issue tracking also gives one other major benefit in that the list
doesn't need to be bombarded with code contributions and patches
constantly. Again, these are fine initially but as you get a few hundred
and then thousand on this list, people will start to become frustrated
with it. Issue tracking gives a single place where people can be sent to
obtain the latest version of some code (like split pane or logging
consoles), and only after the code "settles down" can it (eventually) be
entered into CVS.
In relation to the Qooxdoo domain name, I personally would transfer the
name to Sebastian at the earliest opportunity. Think of it as a donation
for a generous contribution to the open source community. It's good to
take the initiative, but it's important that critical resources like
domain names are held by whoever is the project lead of the day.
Cheers
Ben
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