[qznc]

What choice to you have besides getting somebody else to do the triage?

I think the problem is that users do not consider this a fun activity to help their open source project.

[Cthulhu_]

> What choice to you have besides getting somebody else to do the triage?

I was going to say; if Jeremy has trouble wading through hundreds of issues, he should level up as an OS developer and start asking for help, him becoming the project leader, the underlings distributing the workload of going through issues, escalating the actually important ones to the boss.

This isn't exclusive to OS development either, it's what happens and should happen in real life with management and whatnot. Of course, overdoing it causes five levels of management between Joe Developer and The Boss in the corporate world.

tl;dr: delegate

[saurik]

This isn't an "issue": it is a "discussion"; people are using his issue tracking system as a discussion forum for ideas. This is the kind of thing that for most projects would happen exactly as he describes: on a mailing list or on IRC, not inside of the issue tracker. I feel like claiming he needs to "level up" is kind of harsh: I'd argue what he's doing right here actually is "leveling up"... as a moderator, directing people to the right place to have different kinds of interactions.

[mh-]

I don't think the parent commenter intended the 'level up' to be disparaging at all.

It seems you interpreted it as something like 'up his game', but I believe the commenter meant something like:

He needs to recognize that may no longer be a good use of his time; that he might need to be 'above' that.