Good morning. I thought about using the subject "In search of lost time," but I decided that was a bad idea given how few people actually manage to get through Proust. I am writing with a discussion question for the community. According to the dashboard, at the moment we have 120 bugs with the status "Needs signoff" (25% of these are classified as "bugs" instead of "enhancements" or "new features") and 94 bugs with the status "Signed off" (50% bugs). 2 bugs have the status "Passed QA" and are waiting for feedback from their authors before I push them. There are two lessons we can learn from these numbers: 1) if everyone currently involved with Koha made a commitment to test two patches in January, we could get through the backlog for 3.12 2) we have a QA bottleneck. Please consider lesson 1, but this e-mail is actually about lesson 2. QA is an inherently time-consuming process, and the pool for QAers is much smaller than that for signing off. I expect that as we approach the deadlines for 3.12 the number of bugs awaiting QA will decrease. Unfortunately, the amount of time I have to deal with those bugs will not increase, even though I am spending somewhat less time than I planned dealing with RM duties this month. So, I come to the community with a question: what would people think of me using that time to QA bugs (as opposed to enhancements/new features) that I was not involved in the authorship or signing off of? I would prefer not to do this, but after a month and a half as RM it seems to me that this might be in the best interest of the community and the best way to release a stable and feature-full 3.12. QAing signed off patches would naturally take a much lower priority for me than addressing patches that have already passed QA, but every patch I QA is a patch that our overworked QA team does not have to QA. Thoughts? Also, on a somewhat-related subject, I will be away from January 25-February 4. Keep that in mind if you intend to have any questions that only the RM can answer at the end of the month. Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcamins@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/