What's Wrong With This Picture?

  • In general, if a committer does not see the PR go by on a particular mailing list, it sinks into the sediment.
    • At the moment, only the truly dedicated (or bored, or crazy) are reading all the PRs as they come in. This because it's like drinking from a firehose.
    • The various weekly reminder-mails do not seem to be effective, either.
  • There's no way to get notifications of just a subset of PRs, such as:
    • area of interest
    • 'new in last week'
    There are some prototype reports that have not seen wide acceptance.
  • Further, there's no way to tell whether the difference between a raw incoming PR and one that has been already worked on: they all show up as 'open'. (As of 20090504: 4525 'open' PRs. )