Stalled custom field development

[Joel Peshkin]

Stuart Donaldson wrote:

>
> Ya know if the proposal from Sean had landed several months back when 
> he proposed it, you would have many many happy users of Bugzilla out 
> there with a working custom fields implementation.  


Unfortunately, nobody has ever submitted a patch for review in a state 
to land.  That is the real issue.  I am sure that there are many people 
who would love to have custom fields.  What we need is someone to do the 
real work of implementing, testing, fixing, and reviewing the patches.  
So far, NOBODY has stepped up to the plate to do that.  We can't land a 
"proposal" nor can we land a patch against 2.18.  If we actually had a 
candidate to review, then we could establish if the patch makes a big 
mess or not. 

Speaking as someone who has landed multiple MAJOR changes successfully 
and as the person who has reviewed a huge number of the database 
independence code [Stuart - how much have you reviewed??], my advice is 
unchanged.  Do not attempt to land a mega-patch when a step-by-step 
approach will work.

Since it is almost as much work to review a patch as it is to write it, 
I am beginning to feel a lot like the little red hen here.  If you want 
to help out, help out.  Just whining about the feature not being done 
does not really help at all.

-Joel