23 Sep
2010
23 Sep
'10
12:39 p.m.
Trunk lock is in my opinion a critical tool and shouldn't be abused. Ged is
right, as it deters developers and hampers development process. On the other
hand, Ged, this measure would not be necessary, if only bugfixing would be
given at least the same priority as working on new features. Sadly, we all
know how does it look like... Another critical issue, is... lack of
dedicated testers. Our numbers are way smaller than the one of active
developers, what also is hampering proper testing/bug handling. We barely
have resources to upkeep all three major virtualising machines, not to
mention the real hardware. Finally, please excuse my harsh words, developers
ignore work of third party. We have more than a handful, waiting in
bugzilla, with majority at least undecided, many unassigned, and many of
those assigned - unreviewed. One random example - patch reported almost six
months ago, assigned - over a month ago, still not even commented or acked
by reviewer. How do we want to attract new developers, if we treat them like
that?? Please excuse me Fireball, ARWINSS might be a good idea to attract
new devs, but on the dark side of this project, we are making gross mistakes
on things that are really very simple to succeed. We crave for resources we
need, but at the same time we let them slip by, just because those are from
individuals and not big corp, showering with money.
Best regards