[Foundation-l] Does anyone else think bugzilla is a complete failure

[Birgitte SB]

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/09/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > people are becoming frustrated with this.  It
> seems a
> > great deal of very minor issues are handled for
> en.WP
> > very quickly. They have recently gotten help to
> > rearrange the side bar display of all things.  Yet
> > everyone says the developers are overworked.  So I
> > would think somehow this system of prioritizing
> what
> > gets done (bugzilla) must be broken.
> > Now this is my personal opinion.   I care ten
> times
> > more that the development needs of my community
> are
> > more fairly  addressed, than that the community's
> > voices in the Board Elections are not drowned out
> by
> > en.WP.
> 
> 
> It's an Americocentric conspiracy to take over
> Wikimedia, and
> absolutely the most effective thing for you to do is
> Assume Bad Faith!
> DOWN WITH EN:WP!!
> 
> 
> No, actually it's probably because a lot of the devs
> start as editors
> on en:wp and so that tends to be the project they
> hang around on and
> hear the bugs of most. e.g. Rob Church, who has done
> a *remarkable*
> amount of recent work on MediaWiki and can be found
> on en:wp and on
> #wikipedia ... or Tim Starling, who started as a
> contributor, realised
> there was an urgent need for development and
> sysadmin and pretty much
> moved to that.
> 
> That is: if your project doesn't get its favourite
> bugs fixed, it's
> not favouritism to en:wp - it's your project not
> contributing to the
> development. These are volunteers, if you recall.
> 
> 
> - d.

Yes I do realize a big part of issue is that the
people  interested in development are inherently not
interested in Wikisource.  I was just trying to
compare this issue with everyone talking about en.WP
dominating election issues and voting (which everyone
seemed to classify as a "bad thing")  But seriously to
everyone who thinks I am just being unrealistic here,
is nine months to short a time to start complaining? 
Seriously what should my expectations be?


Birgitte SB

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