Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: seeing a new trend of laziness developing.

["Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:30:50 -0600
R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ned Ludd wrote:
> 
> > 232 matches. http://tinyurl.com/pmrmx
> 
> The vast majority of which have an explanation in the comment
> directly preceding.

In which case it's a moment's effort to cut-n-paste the text into the
reassignment/resolution comment.  Hence solar's laziness accusation.
I'd go further, and suggest that sometimes it's not just laziness (since
cut-n-paste isn't any more effort than typing '.') but a deliberate
action to avoid explaining oneself.

When re-assigning, it is extremely useful for the new assignee to see
some relevant text, as this is the first bit of text they may see. If
you just re-assign with '.' then the new assignee has to browse the bug
to decide how to prioritise etc - which means flipping from your email
client to the web browser or whatever.  All of this breaks up
processing the stream of stuff coming from bugzilla, causing wasted
time - all because someone was deliberately evasive about why they
reassigned.

Similarly when resolving, just saying '.' means other interested parties
have to browse the bug to check whether the resolution is valid or not
- if there's a decent comment along with the resolution this becomes
unnecessary in the majority of cases.

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn

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