Nomad of Norad (David C Hall) wrote:
What is the usual activity level of the bugcheckers at
the MediaWiki
bugzilla site? Is there a whole boatload of people going through the
new bug reports, looking for things they can help with, or is there one
guy that goes through them every second tuesday? :-)
1) All bug submissions and changes are notified within several seconds in our
IRC channel, which usually has 80-100 people idling in it and several active people.
#mediawiki on
irc.freenode.net
2) All bug submissions and changes are CC'd to a read-only mailing list. 51
people are subscribed to this list.
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
I at least see every post every day.
In short, how many days is normal to expect between
posting a bug and
seeing a response?
A response could take anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 years, depending on whether
it seems a serious issue or catches someone's attention.
Feature requests that no one else is interested in, for instance, may never be
commented on.
Minor issues might get treated right away, or might get batched up and acted on
in a group, or might get left for someone more interested in it.
Large feature requests might be held off on for months or years before someone
chooses to put in the time and effort to do it.
If your issue has not been acted on in a long time, it's not because no one saw
it; it's because it was not considered a high priority at the time.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)