Meteor issues are growing - how is MDG prioritizing?

[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.