Introducing time wasters

Michael Haupt openjdk at haupz.de
Fri Sep 21 17:47:31 UTC 2018


Hi,

"nuisance", "embuggerance", "kerfuffle"?

Not entirely nonserious,

Michael

> Am 20.09.2018 um 20:31 schrieb Alejandro Revilla <apr at jpos.org>:
> 
> Why not 'nasty'? It's a nasty bug, after all.
> 
> My 2c.
> 
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> 
>> 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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