Taking a month off from OSS volunteering

Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by koolba on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @04:59PM (#13233007)

Open issues aren't a problem. Anything with a sizable user base will have a continuous stream of issues. That's the mark of being popular! People only complain and open issues about things they actually use.

A "bad sign" would be increasing or stagnant issues with no resolution. Say if a project has a single maintainer and said maintainer decides to stop all work on it. There's plenty of examples of projects like that and if you're choosing a library or backend, you need to know what you're getting into.

(For the record, Redis doesn't fall into that category at all!)

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by skybrian on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:42PM (#13234135)

If issues are being opened faster than they are closed, the number of open issues is going to grow without bound. That's just basic queuing theory.

It's also the case that the average age of open issues will grow without bound. (As the number of open issues grows, eventually you get to a point where more issues are untouched in any given period than are either opened or closed.)

So, it's very easy to get into the state where there are lots of stagnant issues. It's going to happen automatically unless you do something to fix it. Something needs to happen so that either fewer issues are opened or more issues are closed.

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by skybrian on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:27AM (#13235321)

Not getting the downvotes. Have I made some logical error?

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by strictfp on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:56AM (#13236660)

You were pointing out an uncomfortable truth.

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