From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:45:35 GMT Subject: Re: Why Is There No Bug Tracker And Why Are Patches Sent Instead Of Pull Requests Message-ID: <7vk433eyts.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4F50D6C6.3080909@op5.se> Andreas Ericsson writes: > On 03/02/2012 08:03 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > ... a very concise and exact response. > >> In any case, any solution that demands more things to be done by people >> near the core developers than they currently are already doing will make >> things worse by exacerbating the problem that comes from a bottleneck in >> the process. I do not think your "The maintainer triages and assigns >> issues to other developers" or "The assigned developer marks the issue as >> 'done' after fixing it" will fly very well, regardless of the use of any >> bug tracker. > > It works very well when there's the incentive of roof over one's head > and food on one's table to take care of the assigned issues. Your "this is a volunteer effort and assignment does not work like corp environment" is valid, but I think it is missing the point. A solution that demands more from people who are already bottlenecks will not work very well, even in a corporate environment where you have stronger incentive to fill your assigned role.