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[Mats Lidell]

>>>>> Stephen wrote:

Stephen> Uh, this is a volunteer project creating free software.
Stephen> There's nothing that *needs* to be done, because anybody who
Stephen> wants it done always can just do it (if necessary, in a
Stephen> fork).

[and]

Stephen> You suggest (by writing "ought") that this is somehow an
Stephen> obligation of the developers. It is not.

OOPS! Sorry. I don't mean needs in the sense that anyone must do
this. I mean that if you do it, because you want to, you need to do
these tasks, more or less, even if it is only in your own mind.

Stephen> [...]

Stephen> But without new volunteers we can't do it *well*.  On a
Stephen> day-to-day basis, we need people to assign bugs to
Stephen> developers, to classify them so users can search them, and
Stephen> critically evaluate the classifications and admin interface
Stephen> so that we can improve them.

I agree that there must be a few people that take care of the
system. I'm naive and hope that when the system is up and running it
will catch attention.

Stephen> (One reason I'm pushing Roundup is that I know that its
Stephen> architecture can in principle support a lot of improvement
Stephen> and innovation in those areas without a major rewrite, and I
Stephen> know I can personally do the work (if nobody beats me to it
Stephen> ;-).)  

Don't you think that with the right bug tracker effort Roundup, or
similar system, would work out of the box for quite some time before
we need to enhance it?

Stephen> Even an hour a week of assignment and classification work
Stephen> from two or three people would make a big difference in the
Stephen> quality of the database.

I'm probably naive but I hope that this task can be shared among many
people or at least a few people.

Yours
-- 
%% Mats