11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
11:15 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:45:09PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
this is bullshit. i make myself available to
"some people" via IRC and
email and web forums for up to 15 hours a day, typically 6 or sometimes 7
days a week.
Fine, but what purpose does this serve if no trace of all that
activity is kept on your side ?
clearly, you're not working on any projects with
the kind of bug flow that
i do, let alone ones i've worked on in the past.
I do get less bug reports, that's clear.
at what point do you believe that this "the
developer should take care of
it" scales itself out of existence? 5 bugs a day? 10 bugs a day? and what
happens when there are >1 developers? who "writes it down on a post-it(TM)"
or enters it in the tracker? whose bug is it then anyway?
Something doesn't add up here. Entering a bug in a tracker, if you use
one, is the first of *many* actions in the process of fixing it. It's
not the most time consuming one. If this tiny part of the process is
already overwhelming, what about the rest ?
Ciao,
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