On Mar 13, 2019, at 6:48 PM, Andre Klapper
<aklapper(a)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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