Community Priorities

Triaging tickets takes a lot of time and is often thankless work. Testing patches and making sure they are committable is equally as time-consuming. Being a gatekeeper to those tickets going into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. is also tough – sure, you can commit anything, but you are also the first person responsible when it breaks or there weren’t unit tests in place (when there should have been).

As a community, we often have 2 major goals:
1) Fix everything
2) Make everything better

Since we are still in the midst of defining what 4.0 will ultimately be, I would like to ensure that the community once again has a voice as far as “priority” tickets go, outside of dev chat.

If there is an important ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that you feel has been neglected, comment below. Seriously. There is always frustration from those who say “my ticket never gets looked at!” – for anyone feeling especially disillusioned, remind us publicly to give you some feedback. This does not mean that every ticket deserves to ultimately go in right away, but let’s talk about it.

Speaking for myself, I often sit down at the computer and say “my goal today is to commit 100 tickets!” – I usually end up committing 8, over the course of 5 hours. And most of those tickets haunt me for weeks. Everyone is held to a high standard and expected to follow through when they make a decision for everyone else.

We ALL want the same thing. Let’s work together to get there!