<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I agree with Matt. He and Richard are doing a great job but cannot quite keep up. They are doing a fantastic job given the time available to them.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve been a bit slack the last two weeks and will be so for the next four or so but I’ll attempt to catch up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pauli<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Mar 2019, at 7:53 pm, Matt Caswell <<a href="mailto:matt@openssl.org" class="">matt@openssl.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 25/03/2019 20:10, Matthew Lindner wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello OpenSSL Team,<br class=""><br class="">The issues and pull requests on github are largely getting ignored, I<br class="">know the team is busy on the new release but please spend some time on<br class="">these as well.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I don't think this is a fair characterisation. I see all posts to issues and PRs<br class="">in github for openssl and I see *lots* of activity.<br class=""><br class="">If I use the github "insights" page I see that over the last month 67 new issues<br class="">were raised and 46 were closed. However those numbers are skewed by issues in<br class="">very recent days (its shortly after a weekend and neither Richard or myself were<br class="">around yesterday). Over the last week 23 new issues were raised and 8 were<br class="">closed. Subtracting one from the other I see that for the period 1 week ago to 1<br class="">month ago 44 new issues were raised and 38 were closed.<br class=""><br class="">So the real problem there is a mismatch between the opening rate and the closing<br class="">rate, i.e. it is NOT that we are ignoring these issues. I see it more as a<br class="">resource issue - we are seeing issues raised at a greater rate than we have<br class="">resources to handle. The best answer to that IMO is to somehow encourage a<br class="">greater participation from the community in helping us to keep on top of these<br class="">things. Not sure how best to achieve that though.<br class=""><br class="">I can't do the same analysis for PRs because github doesn't detect properly when<br class="">we merge PRs (because we don't use the github facility for doing that). I would<br class="">expect to see somewhat similar numbers though.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Matt<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>