[teampractices] Old-ish but relevant blog post from Luis Villa on bug wrangling and backlogs

[Luis Villa]

I'm available to vent about bugtracking at any time, at no charge ;)

Luis

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:13 AM Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> 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 <mbinder at wikimedia.org>
> 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-needinfoing-old-bugs-en-masse/
>>
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