Bryce Harrington wrote:
The number to check out this time is the number of feature requests. We dropped the total from 471 a couple months ago to under 450 now, or from a ratio of 62% to under 50%. Quite a jump!
I bet the decrease in the number of RFE is partly due to a more aggressive triaging, with some closed as duplicates.
Where the project needs help right now is in closing bugs. We have our bug tracker quite well under control, but there are 258 open bugs, and it would be wonderful if we could cut that down significantly before the 0.43 release. If you can code, please check out if you can help close one or two, and help us really drive this number down. :-)
Other projects keep from time to time some events called "bug party", when people clean the bug/feature tracker, collaborating over IRC and closing as much as possible as DUPLICATE, WON'T FIX, INVALID, RESOLVED or prioritizing. It may have the benefit of attracting new contributors and giving non-developers a way to contribute. What do you think about the opportunity/usefulness of such a bug party? At 258 bugs and 448 RFEs the number may be small enough and the action not needed.