bug fixes/patches and developer round-trip time

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Fri Aug 15 09:24:55 UTC 2003


Hi,

Perhaps I should bring up one issue that may have not been discussed too 
much.

A lot of bug reports which no one has time to fix is bad, of course.

But what's worse, is that when someone from the community provides e.g. 
patches or works for fixing those issues, it takes a LONG time to actually 
get a developer to commit such a fix and get the problem solved.

IMHO, in cases I've seen this, most of the time it has taken entirely too
long (even many weeks or months, even for trivial fixes).

This alienates people who actually sometimes fix problems rather than
"just" complain about them. (Complaining, when done properly, is very 
important too, of course :-).

This is something that needs to be fixed, and should be a first priority
item to fix in the RHL project.

Whether that requires new priorization for developers, giving out CVS
commit access, or whatever, I don't know .. but the situation MUST 
improve, and soon.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings






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