Re: bugs and bug tracking

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 10/06/2015 10:57 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >On 10/06/2015 10:17 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> >Speaking of which ... this project is rich in skilled users who are
> >involved in the community but don't code.  Bug triage is exactly the
> >kind of thing very part-time community supporters can do, if we make it
> >easy for them to do.
> 
> That is an understatement. There is a huge pool of non-hackers that can
> help contribute to this sort of thing.

It was said, way back when, "adding Windows support will add a huge pool
of Windows-only developers".  I'm not sure that the impact was really
all that big there.  We have a few Windows-enabled people, but how many
of them are Windows-only?

We similarly said, "moving the TODO list to the wiki will add a huge
pool of users that cannot edit the current CVS-only file".  To date,
most of what has happened is that the old items have become stale and
Bruce continues to do 99% of the work of maintaining it.

So I am dubious that people that currently do not contribute will
contribute in the future just because we change the system.

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