W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth

Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by ThePadawan on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:19PM (#32829025)

I'm (positively) amazed at the number of open PRs on Godot's Github [0].

I'm used to those sorts of numbers for open issues without ongoing fixes - but the number of issues is actually only 5x the number of PRs.

That seems insanely productive for an open source effort.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pulls

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by capableweb on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @04:44PM (#32829963)

I'm super happy Godot is receiving so much attention, both in contributions and issue creation.

But, how is having PRs open since 2019 a positive indication, and a productive one at that? Seems hugely unproductive to never close a PR unless the author do so (apparently? I don't know the dev process too closely).

Most be very hard to navigate so many PRs, and surely most of them must be unmergable after some months due to conflicts.

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by ThePadawan on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:42AM (#32833401)

> But, how is having PRs open since 2019 a positive indication, and a productive one at that?

Simply because I looked at some other tools recently and their PR backlog was simply a graveyard. A 3 year backlog seems really good to me in comparison.

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Re:W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth by sl3dge78 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:56PM (#32830669)

I think this is mostly because the core team has been working on 4.0 for a couple of years now so I would imagine that PRs get overlooked. It's a popular project and there's not a lot of people on the team so yeah it builds up.

I have PR open since 2020 (small change for a bit of qol) still hasn't been merged and I believe that there will be major conflicts now.

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