Bartosz about Chapel

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Nov 11 09:07:45 PST 2011


On 11/11/11 3:39 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2011 09:34:07 Russel Winder wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 19:24 -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Bearophile has some good ideas, but he has too many of them for us to
>>> ever deal with them all even if they were all really good, and many of
>>> them are incredibly trivial. Obviously, he can suggest as many ideas as
>>> he likes, but I think that he'd stand a better chance of getting his
>>> ideas implemented if he presented far fewer of them. It would also take
>>> up less of everyone else's time. He's a valuable member of the
>>> community, but it would be better for everyone (him included) if his
>>> signal to noise ratio were much higher.
>> 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.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

If there were many meritory ideas, we'd have a completely different 
issue on our hands. The problem here is just signal to noise ratio.

Andrei


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