User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: March 14, 2011/@comment-1997905-20110314232726/@comment-1656630-20110315004859

> Hopefully that'll push some important things through faster, instead of leaving issues open for months.

It will have some impact, but the new system isn't going to dramatically change how we prioritize fixes. There are other tools and workflows that we're continually revising to help with that situation. (Your series of comments on my welcome post was very helpful for my own orientation, actually -- i've been researching some of those bugs to see how things get reported and passed around in these databases on hundreds of categorized details. I'll hopefully be in a better spot to push things forward soon. Thanks.)

> Design as in look, or design as in mechanics? Because it could use a serious mechanical overhaul.

A little from Column A, a little from Column B. Most of what I've seen has been ease of use improvements, but we'll be getting more detailed info on the specifics soon.

I'm more concerned about how alarming it can be for users when a tool they use every day changes, so we're working on getting some more info released before the change actually takes place.