On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Leo <diebuche(a)gmail.com> wrote:
*Quote: "Respond to contributions
immediately."
This is what I think bugs me the most. There are heaps of bugs which have had patches
attached for month or years. For newcomers, who maybe spent a lot of time on these,
it's just rude to neither commit them nor explain why they can't be committed
immidiately.
This has gotten better lately, WMF created a bugmeister position and
the bugmeister tries to respond to most if not all bugs after being
reported. We should definitely keep up with this and try to at least
confirm every problem that is being reported.
The difficult part I think is responding to every patch. I don't
believe that we currently have the capacity to review those patches.
(In fact we barely have sufficient capacity to review the
contributions of our core developers!)
*Create and document communication channels.
This has been talked about before, and maybe it did indeed get it little better.
Being a volunteer, I believe that the staff<>volunteer communication
have greatly improved over the last couple months. I can't speak for
the developer<>non-technical community communication though.
We're obviously not there yet, but we are definitely improving.
Bryan