for those of you who care...
... i suggest a meme of sorts.
how many of you out there really care about LJ?
how many of you out there really care about the development of LJ?
how many of you out there really care about the open-ness of the development of LJ?
if you're in all of those groups, i have a favor to ask.
but first, a little back-story.
back in august, rt_bugs ceased posting of public entries.
its purpose is to document the changes to the bug tracker that LJ is using.
its original behavior was to post public entries for when tickets were opened and closed.
any replies to the ticket were posted under members-only security.
in august, a program had a burp and stopped sending the public posting flag or always sent the members-only posting flag and it's been members-only since.
that closed one avenue of volunteer development.
a couple weeks ago, posts to changelog ceased entirely. a couple days later we got one public entry. and at the end of the month we got a couple members-only entries.
this is the main place to go for changes in the livejournal code. however, if this is not updated it makes it hard to document changes.
and since a changelog is all about documenting changes... why is it broken?
by cruising the 6a code server, i can see that there are changes definitely being made to both the livejournal and ljcom repositories. so, it's not like they're not doing anything.
near the end of last month i posted an entry into the queue of lj_dev asking what was up with changelog. it was rejected without reason. the email does say that if i "would like to discuss the reasons for [my] entry's rejection, [i] will need to contact a moderator directly."
well, i haven't had awesome luck with communicating with these people.
so! here's where the meme idea comes in.
if you fall into all of the groups at the top of this entry, i ask that you post an entry to the queue of lj_dev requesting more info about why rt_bugs ceased posting publically and why changelog has ceased posting at all.
hopefully this will get their attention. hopefully in a positive way.
if anyone has any better ideas, please toss them my way.
edit: uniquewonders suggests firing off emails to feedback@livejournal.com.
how many of you out there really care about LJ?
how many of you out there really care about the development of LJ?
how many of you out there really care about the open-ness of the development of LJ?
if you're in all of those groups, i have a favor to ask.
but first, a little back-story.
back in august, rt_bugs ceased posting of public entries.
its purpose is to document the changes to the bug tracker that LJ is using.
its original behavior was to post public entries for when tickets were opened and closed.
any replies to the ticket were posted under members-only security.
in august, a program had a burp and stopped sending the public posting flag or always sent the members-only posting flag and it's been members-only since.
that closed one avenue of volunteer development.
a couple weeks ago, posts to changelog ceased entirely. a couple days later we got one public entry. and at the end of the month we got a couple members-only entries.
this is the main place to go for changes in the livejournal code. however, if this is not updated it makes it hard to document changes.
and since a changelog is all about documenting changes... why is it broken?
by cruising the 6a code server, i can see that there are changes definitely being made to both the livejournal and ljcom repositories. so, it's not like they're not doing anything.
near the end of last month i posted an entry into the queue of lj_dev asking what was up with changelog. it was rejected without reason. the email does say that if i "would like to discuss the reasons for [my] entry's rejection, [i] will need to contact a moderator directly."
well, i haven't had awesome luck with communicating with these people.
so! here's where the meme idea comes in.
if you fall into all of the groups at the top of this entry, i ask that you post an entry to the queue of lj_dev requesting more info about why rt_bugs ceased posting publically and why changelog has ceased posting at all.
hopefully this will get their attention. hopefully in a positive way.
if anyone has any better ideas, please toss them my way.
edit: uniquewonders suggests firing off emails to feedback@livejournal.com.