Re: [boost] Library Maintainence - was 5 Observations ....

Subject: Re: [boost] Library Maintainence - was 5 Observations ....
From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-25 12:51:39

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Gennadiy Rozental <rogeeff_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> We need to be careful, how we identify this lack of responsiveness.
> Maybe we should ask maintainer to acknowledge that he seen the ticket?
> The fact that ticket is not addressed is not an indicator that
> maintainer is not aware about it.

I agree.  And I'm not sure how to properly measure "responsiveness."

Perhaps some ratio of tickets closed to tickets opened over time (or
*something*) would provide a usable metric for determining when a
maintainer is overwhelmed, or just not doing anything at all.

Jon