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Sean Dague wrote:
> It's a trade off. Would you rather keep Wishlist mechanism and have ~30
> extra bugs in every release, and have to hunt for a new bug lead twice
> as often? That's my gut feel on the break down here.
>
> To get the bug backlog under control, we have to make hard calls here.
> This is one of them. Once we're working with < 400 open issues, deciding
> to reopen the Wishlist mechanism is a thing we can and should revisit.

You're right that as soon as a project is resource-constrained (be it 
patch authors, core reviewers bandwidth or spec reviewers) and you can't 
get everything on your own list done anyway, you're likely to gradually 
stop looking at extra sources of inspiration. You start by ignoring the 
unqualified "wishlist bugs", then if you still can't get your own things 
done you'll likely ignore the more qualified "backlog specs" and if all 
else fails you'll start ignoring the bug reports altogether.

In an ideal world you'd either grow the resources / bandwidth, or get to 
the bottom of what you absolutely need to get done, and then start 
paying attention to those feedback channels again. Those feedback 
channels are essential to keep the pulse on the users problems and 
needs, and avoid echo chamber effects. But then if you just can't give 
them any attention, having them existing and ignored is worse than not 
having them at all.

So if Nova currently is in that resource-constrained situation (and I 
think it is), it's better to clearly set expectations and close the 
wishlist bugs feedback mechanism, rather than keeping it open and 
completely ignore it.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)