Re: Patch Pending: Tray icon does not account for icon transparency mask

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:26:06PM +0200, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> Dnia 11-06-2005, sob o godzinie 18:36 +0300, Ilya Konstantinov
> napisał(a):
[..]
> > Could anyone please look at my patch and comment on it / check it in?
> 
> That would be easier if you provided a direct link to the bugzilla
> bug :), not just the number. The reason is probably that bugzilla is
> effectively unusable for developers. It has far too many bugs for them
> to handle. They'd spend all their time managing bugzilla bugs and would
> have no time for programming. That is a very unfortunate situation. The

I disagree that Bugzilla is unusable for developers. It just isn't as
efficient when a product starts receiving huge amounts of bugs per day.
Suggestions to improve that are welcome. It would be easier if bugsquad
was bigger, but that just isn't the case.
If you (or anyone not yet involved) wants to change this, drop by #bugs
on irc.gimp.net.

> best you can probably do is to bring that issue up on a list that is
> more focused on eel than d-d-l. (I don't know which list that is). Try
> not to be offended by noone looking at your patch. There are too little
> people in the bug squad, no bugzilla bugs just go pretty much unnoticed.

Bugsquad isn't meant to look at patches, that is a maintainers task.
Maybe we could ping maintainers more often and that is something we can
automate (I believe Elijah was working on this).
However, if there just isn't enough time or such emails are ignored,
it won't help.

> People always said, "put it in bugzilla, so it doesn't get lost", but
> today the rather sad truth is that, often, if you do put it only in
> bugzilla, then there's a very little chance of someone looking at it.

Even if nobody looks at the patches, they're still available in
Bugzilla. How are they lost then? I can easily generate a list of
unreviewed patches for gnome-terminal (or any other product).

Note that I agree having 1801 unreviewed patches is a problem. I'm also
working on reducing some of the bugspam, but I'll announce that when it
is finished.

-- 
Regards,
Olav