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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> "Respecting bug priority" feels like that corporate BS I have to put up |
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> with every day. |
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Gentoo is incorporated so maybe that fits. ;) |
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On a more serious note, please try to understand what I meant rather |
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than just what I wrote. |
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I wrote both "assigning" and "respecting"; your gripe with "corporate BS" |
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may be a result of how priority was assigned to your bugs, and likely |
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amplified if you can't do much to influence that process. If you only |
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get a priority shoved down your throat you of course can't really |
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respect it. |
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For priority to have any meaning on bugs.g.o there would need to be |
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some buy-in among developers to actually want to work together to |
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assign the proper priority to each bug. |
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Bug trackers aren't management command and control tools, they are |
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hive minds which just remember what workers agree on anyway. |
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> the only bugs that get any attention at all are ones where some |
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> fool of a manager thinks he can shout louder than anyone else. |
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> We have nothing to offer maintainers except fuzzy-feel-good and |
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> recognition; we have to trust them to do the right thing. |
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Nobody will do the right thing if they don't know what it is. |
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Recognition can certainly communicate that higher priority bugs are |
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more important, but honestly, I wouldn't want someone who needs to |
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be told that explicitly on my (the Gentoo) team in the first place.. |
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Disclaimer for anyone who might find this upsetting: Of course people |
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always have limited scope, and it is perfectly fine if high priority |
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bugs can simply not be fixed by whoever has time to work on bugs at |
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any given moment. |
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IMO, closing bugs without having the right fix has negative value. |
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I know that it can be depressing and demotivating to have too many |
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bugs, just like it is to live in a too messy room, but I really do |
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think that the best solution is simply to pick one thing up at a |
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time. It may take a long time, but in the end the room is clean. :) |
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//Peter |