Introducing time wasters

[aleksei.voitylov at bell-sw.com]

+1. How about dev-hard?

Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> 20 сентября 2018 г. 17:34:46 написал:

> Hi Volker/Roman,
>
> On 20/09/18 15:17, Volker Simonis wrote:
>> maybe there's a little misunderstanding here? As I understand it, If
>> you open a bug and I flag it as "timewaster", that doesn't mean that I
>> think fixing that bug would be a waste of time nor does it mean that I
>> pretend my time is more valuable than yours. It only means that I lost
>> a lot of time searching for a similar problem and in the end I
>> detected that you already found it and there's already a bug for it.
>> In some sense the flag can be seen as a frequency counter for how
>> often a problem occurs.
>
> Well, I almost posted this this morning ... so here goes. I think there
> is a not-so-little misunderstanding here that we need to avoid.
>
> The point of this tag is to emphasise that the bug is costly in
> developer time while it remains present i.e. that it is a priority to
> fix this.
>
> That's precisely the opposite of what the tag will suggest to many
> native English speakers (and some non-native ones, too,it seems) who
> will read it as saying
>
>  "this bug is not worth fixing and ought to be ignored -- probably
> because it was raised by someone who has nary a clue as to what is involved"
>
> I'm quite sure this is going to be a regular stumbling block if we don't
> change the name.
>
> So, perhaps we could use a tag which says more explicitly what was
> intended e.g. "development-slowdown", "dev-brake" or something along
> those lines?
>
> regards,
>
>
> Andrew Dinn
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