On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Leo diebuche@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