An old-ish-y but goody Max, thanks for sharing. I find the following particularly insightful and relevant to what I see in Wikimedia's Phabricator instance:
It is important to know that open bugs in a BTS *are not free*. Old bugs > impose a cost on developers, because when they are trying to search > relevant bugs, old bugs can make it harder to find the things they really > should be working on. In the best case, this slows them down; in the worst > case, it drives them to use other tools to track the work they want to do – > making the BTS next to useless. This violates rule #1 of a BTS: it *must* be > useful for developers, or else it all falls apart. (and thanks Luis :) On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Max Binder <[email protected]> wrote: > Nemo_bis sent me the following and I thought it was an interesting thing > to share here. > > http://lu.is/blog/2014/03/28/i-am-the-cadt-and-advice-on-nee > dinfoing-old-bugs-en-masse/ > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > > -- Arthur Richards Sr. Agile Coach: Organizational Collaboration Team Practices Group <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group> [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687
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