[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ at Microsoft

[Luca Boccassi]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 14:14, Brett Viren <brett.viren at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 4:09 AM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried to stop complaining and instead use the time to do the actual work required? I hear it can do wonders
> >
>
> I understand the frustration I hear in this response.
>
> One difficulty I see for community members to do the actual work
> required is knowing what actual work is required.
>
> I see 278 open issues on zeromq/libzmq github.  Not all are blockers
> to a release given some predate the last release.  I do find 6 with
> the "Critical" label but  they also predate the 4.3.4 release.  I
> could not find a label among the 60 that are defined that indicates to
> me that its issues are blocking the release.
>
> Perhaps people with the required expertise to categorize and the
> required github access can label those issues that must be solved
> before a release?
>
> This will give the community needed guidance on where to contribute as
> well as a concrete understanding on what is blocking the next release.
> When this topic flares up again (and it will if we do not do
> something) we can point people to that label and say: please help make
> this list of issues empty.
>
> Perhaps such a list already exists and simply needs more prominent display?

It was already shared, even on the ML, more than once:

https://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2023-July/033851.html