[Foundation-l] Does anyone else think bugzilla is a complete failure

[Birgitte SB]

The subject line pretty much sums this note up.  I am
frustrated with the continued lack of development
support for anything where the propents are not
actually developers themselves.  I have aware for
sometime that asking for anything without uploading a
"patch" is absolutely useless.  So I accepted people
that don't know what a patch is are just screwed.  But
I have recently realized many of developments which
have never happened *did* have attachments (which I
think are "patches").  The bugzilla system really must
be broken.  Because how can these things just be
ignored for so long?  Here is the bug which had the
most effort invested in it from WS.

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4375  

This feature was so desired by people Wikisource a
show of support by 15 separte languages was
orchestrated hoping it would have some effect.

http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Vote_on_enabling_the_ProtectSection_extension

This was back in January.  Nothing ever happened.  The
underlying problem this feature would solve will now
hopefully be able to be addressed by "Stable version".
 At least I hope "stable versions" will be workable. 
But the last email about how de.WP wants a much more
complicated system for this worries me.

There are other technical issues that have projects on
WS at a standstill.  

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5881

I ask people online.   Bugs are filed.  Nothing
happens.  I do not want to make the effort to get all
sub-domains to show support for these new features
when it will have no effect.  I realize that the
developers are volunteers and are able to chose what
interests them and where they would like to work.  But
they do not even give any feedback or even tell us
they will not help us and we should learn to live
without it.  We just wait month upon month hoping it
is on someone's to-do list somewhere.  It is beyond
frustrating.  Has anyone else experienced these
problems?


Birgitte SB

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