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From: "Brion Vibber" brion@wikimedia.org
[MZM:] Someone uploads a patch to Bugzilla and doesn't use IRC (and so they can't nag for review there). What's your recommendation for that scenario?
Improve bug & patch review responsiveness so they get our feedback on bugzilla (and thus in their email).
I believe MZ's reply to this will parse as "that's a good goal. But it's a goal, and what we need is a *process*". And yes, I know Process is in process.
:-)
The reality is that uploading a patch on Bugzilla should be sufficient to trigger review.
Exactly. If we haven't reached that point that is our failure as reviewers and maintainers of a FOSS project, and our job to do better at it.
I want to take a moment here and applaud Brion for that response. It's far too uncommon in FOSS projects - I would never hear it from the MythTV people, I don't think, at least not in so many words.
And there's some reason to that; there is a line you cross in FOSS when you are no longer scratching just your own itch (and can't these people just go buy Lanacaine or something? :-)...but when you've crossed that line is clearly a matter of dispute between devs and users on some projects; I'm very happy to see that Mediawiki's dev team agree with we users on which side of that line they're on.
Huzzah!
Cheers, -- jra