Bartosz about Chapel

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 01:39 -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2011 09:34:07 Russel Winder wrote:
[...]
> > Why don't they get turned into tickets such that work can be scheduled?
> 
> He creates tons of them (both bug reports and enhancement requests). Probably 
> a third of the reports in bugzilla come from him (maybe more; someone tallied 
> it a few months back, but I don't remember the exact percentage). They can't 
> possibly all be addressed. And many of his requests involve major changes that 
> have no chance of happening. He'd stand a much better chance of getting some 
> of his ideas implemented if he just focused on a few of them, but the sheer 
> number of them means that there's no way that very many of them are going to 
> be implemented, regardless of their merit.

Ah, OK.  So exactly the opposite of my original surmise.  Sadly a
surfeit of effectively useless reports is worse that too few.

-- 
Russel.
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