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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:34:49AM -0700, Jesse Luehrs via RT wrote: > Is this ticket still useful? Not with that subject :-) But what we are missing is any sort of structure whereby anyone competent can triage tickets, and mark those that are "seemingly valid, but I know I don't know enough about this area to be sure". I think that that was the intent of this ticket, and that intent is still useful. However, it will expose a second problem, which is that for significant chunks of the core, *no-one* is immediately competent to assess the relevant detail of the ticket. This holds for both bug reports, and patches. For the latter, often it takes the "expert" a similar amount of time to validate and understand the problem as the original patch author took on it. I'm not sure how to solve that. The codebase is both very big and very tightly coupled, which means that the whole doesn't fit inside anyone's head. And most people working on it are not doing it anything like full time, which means that their heads have to contain a bunch of other stuff. 20 people doing 2 hours a week (if *only* we had 20 people. Dream on) is as similar to 1 person for 40 hours as the mythical 9 women making a baby in one month. (Just) money isn't solving this. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous