Meteor issues are growing - how is MDG prioritizing?

[gsabran]

I’ve been bumping my head against the wall for a few weeks because Meteor is taking ~1mn to rebuild as soon as I do any kind of file change, as have others: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/4284

So this made me wonder:

• how long before I move to another framework where I can get stuff done
• what is Meteor “quality” state. Here is a vizualization of the number of issues from https://9-volt.github.io/bug-life:
  (This tool seems to count labels, so some issues would get counted several times if they have several labels. Or at least this is how I understand the difference between 1.7k and the 1k issues github reports)

Anyway, issues number is continuously increasing and it’s very high.

So:

• are most of those issues not a priority/not super relevant? If so, why?
• else, why is MDG focussing on first developing new ambitious features like Apollo before getting issues settled?

[sashko]

Note that a lot of those issues are:

1. Feature requests
2. Low priority bugs that only affect a small set of people
3. No longer relevant but it’s hard to tell

We are putting effort into improving issue management, follow along here:

Community help with issue triage

1.3 is out the door and by all accounts the release has been very well received (45% of you have already upgraded). As some of you may know, we had a lengthy beta period, something we haven’t done for other releases. What we found during the betas is that folks from the community helped out tremendously with testing, creating quality reproductions and participating in discussions around detailed feature design. We’re planning to formalize an issue triage process that will enable us to keep the …

There’s a process underway to define a principled way of dealing with and resolving issues.

Either way, the number of issues in a project isn’t a good metric for anything, just like the number of lines of code isn’t a good metric for how much work is getting done.

[ramez]

@gsabran,

Apollo seems to be a critical piece of MDG’s future, so they are investing there. The community is slowly stepping up to take over pieces of Meteor (started with the Blaze repo). Which is a good thing for governance and the future of the framework. Makes everyone happy and safe.

[reoh]

There’s now a roadmap here - https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/Roadmap.md

It shows what they’re currently working on/is coming in the near future. I think the build tool was mentioned as a priority during the 1.3 beta but AFAICT, the node update seems to have taken precedence over that.

Until then, @benoit has made webpack integration a lot easier which should help with build times till the build tool gets looked at.

[gsabran]

Yes I still need to fix some opened issues with the webpack integration and I’m discussing with @benoitt who is doing amazing work.