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On 2014.03.23 14:23, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> Wow, something got the hair on your neck up. This is my point exactly. 
> In an ER they would take the most serious first (and sometimes gunshots 
> are through and through and not all that critical), and then the 
> non-serious *in order*, or at least reasonably so, not by a willy nilly 
> "I'll take this" system. That way the pretty girl with strep throat 
> who's been waiting only 30 minutes doesn't get seen ahead of the smelly 
> homeless old guy with leg ulcers who's been waiting six hours.
> 
> Ports PR's are mostly non-urgent. Triage out the urgent and get them 
> done. The rest should be handled in order, not by an "I'll take this" 
> system.
I disagree. Yes, the urgent ones need to get priority, but trying to dictate
which issues *volunteers* should work on doesn't work. It's also not as
simple as just urgent and non-urgent. An inexperienced contributor is
going to want to do an easy update to a port they like, and if you tell
that person to do some difficult fix to a port they don't care about just
because it's older, you'll scare them away and their contributions will
be zero. Ports are not people and prioritizing by popularity (and
difficulty) is not a bad thing.