Re: 8.2 features status

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
>> What happens now is that someone says they want to work on X, and the
>> community tells them that Y might be working on it, and Y gives us a
>> status.
>>
> 
> What happens now is:
> 
> A starts working on X.
> 3 months pass
> B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives, doesn't find X 
> (because they know it by a different name), comes to -hackers and asks 
> "Is anyone working on X?"
> B waits for 2 weeks without an answer and repeats the question.
> Hackers E, F and G reply "yes, someone is but I don't remember who, 
> search the archives for keyword X"

I would bet, right about here we loose a whole lot of would be contributors.

Just the the questions I had about two todos this year was enough 
basically give up on doing any work on them.

Joshua D. Drake


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