Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed
Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed
- Subject: Re: I am reluctant to file any more bugs until those already reported are fixed
- From: Michael David Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:44:24 -0700
On 7/15/15, email@hidden
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Yet in the time you spent wasting keystrokes on this thread, you both could
> easily have filed bugs.
In the time I could have wasted by filing bugs, I actually did write:
I State This That It May Be Rejected:
The Lysistrata Manifesto
http://www.warplife.com/manifestos/lysistrata.html
Among my several points is that new bugs are created far, far faster
than old bugs are fixed. I no longer regard it as a productive use of
anyone's time - not just my own - to file new reports.
Rather, my objective is to halt the production of new features until
old bugs are closed. That's not a goal I can achieve all by myself; I
initiated this thread and wrote the above essay in hopes that others
will join me by boycotting all the bugbases.
Not just Radar - Bugzilla and all the rest.
I am quite diligent with my bug reports; many of my minimal test cases
are trivial to reproduce. When I was a Debug Meister at Apple I wrote
something like the following:
tell Finder restart
... dropped it in the Startup Items folder then manually rebooted.
Once per day over the next month or so I found the box had dropped
into MacsBug, eventually to isolate it to the Open Transport Ethernet
driver. That driver's engineer found and fixed an edge case in its
shutdown proc.
My persistence yielded a Gold Star on my performance review.
It is not at all that I am lazy. I work like a demon.
It is not at all that I don't care about our professional colleagues.
It is not at all that I am unconcerned for our users.
It is because I regard halting the introduction of new features so we
can fix the bugs we already know about as the best way to improve the
quality of our existing products.
I reiterate: this problem is not unique to Apple, nor to the computer industry.
Here in Clark County Washington there is quite a lot of political
corruption. I know how to deal with that too but elected officials
who are on the take don't like to read my Walls of Text so I'm going
to speak at County Council meetings, register voters, make Get Out The
Vote phone calls and transcribe hardcopy campaign finance disclosure
statements onto the Web.
Thanks for letting me clear all that up.
Mike
--
Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer
email@hidden
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future
Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past.
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