On Mar 13, 2019, at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper@wikimedia.org mailto:aklapper@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 21:01 +0100, John Erling Blad wrote:
... But nobody does anything about the sinkhole itself.
And repeating the same thing over and over again while repeatedly ignoring requests to be more specific won't help either...
Here’s a specific example, created in 2015:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116145 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116145
A bug fix was provided years ago but never accepted or rejected. It’s the first and last MediaWiki bug ever assigned to me. I’ve just unassigned myself.
In cases like this, remarks like “Because you did not fix these bugs” and “... anyone is free to pick it up and work on it ... No further response needed” miss the point. When a bug fix is provided, but nobody with authority to accept or reject it ever does so, that’s a failure on the part of those who have authority, not on the part of those who are able and willing to fix bugs. Sure, volunteers are “free” to waste their time!
You need to use and share your authority more effectively, to “be bold” with accepting and rejecting bug fixes. Authorize more people to accept or reject bug fixes. Assign each proposed bug fix to one such person, starting with the oldest bugs. Then hold those people accountable. You don’t lack volunteers, you lack volunteers with authority.
Best wishes,
Tom
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