Introducing time wasters

[Aaron Scott-Boddendijk]

I like the 'affects-dev' idea but maybe it should say how it affects them -
productivity... "dev-productivity" maybe?

The productivity losses taking the form of of one or more of the following
(and almost certainly not exhaustive):

* Redundantly repeated investigation (because the cause and symptoms make
it non-obvious to find in the bug log).
* Interrupting developer workflow or requiring a low-productivity
workaround.
* Impacting workflow efficiency, such as slow builds, tests, requiring
repeated test-infrastructure tear-up/set-up cycles etc.

This tag could mark issues that are bad things or good things for
dev-productivity, anything that improves productivity by better tooling or
removing pain.

It should be noted that such bugs do impact customers - it's just that the
impact is indirect, they get features and other fixes more slowly because
the team is repeatedly impacted by this bug.

--
Aaron Scott-Boddendijk


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:30 AM Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A "mosquito" bug. Very irritating indeed :)
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
> Il giorno gio 20 set 2018 alle ore 20:32 Alejandro Revilla
> <apr at jpos.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > Why not 'nasty'? It's a nasty bug, after all.
> >
> > My 2c.
> >
> > --
> > @apr <http://twitter.com/apr>
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > * Aleksey Shipilev:
> > >
> > > > dev-hard implies "this requires hard development"?
> > > >
> > > > Probably, the variant of "critical-for-dev-experience" to turn the
> > > > whole thing positive.
> > >
> > > I think the point is the internal impact.  Presumably it's like a test
> > > blocker, except that it's possible to work around once understood (but
> > > then the time waste has already occurred).
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if such bugs are automatically urgent.  It's true that the
> > > fix will quickly pay for itself, but that doesn't really tell us much
> > > about priority and severity of the issue (and the difficulty of the fix
> > > 8-).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Florian
> > >
>
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