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

[David Gerard]

On 23/09/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> people are becoming frustrated with this.  It seems a
> great deal of very minor issues are handled for en.WP
> very quickly. They have recently gotten help to
> rearrange the side bar display of all things.  Yet
> everyone says the developers are overworked.  So I
> would think somehow this system of prioritizing what
> gets done (bugzilla) must be broken.
> Now this is my personal opinion.   I care ten times
> more that the development needs of my community are
> more fairly  addressed, than that the community's
> voices in the Board Elections are not drowned out by
> en.WP.


It's an Americocentric conspiracy to take over Wikimedia, and
absolutely the most effective thing for you to do is Assume Bad Faith!
DOWN WITH EN:WP!!


No, actually it's probably because a lot of the devs start as editors
on en:wp and so that tends to be the project they hang around on and
hear the bugs of most. e.g. Rob Church, who has done a *remarkable*
amount of recent work on MediaWiki and can be found on en:wp and on
#wikipedia ... or Tim Starling, who started as a contributor, realised
there was an urgent need for development and sysadmin and pretty much
moved to that.

That is: if your project doesn't get its favourite bugs fixed, it's
not favouritism to en:wp - it's your project not contributing to the
development. These are volunteers, if you recall.


- d.