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Bugzilla Etiquette
There's a number of faux pas you can commit when using Bugzilla. At the very least, these will make Mozilla contributors upset at you; if committed enough times they will cause those contributors to demand the disabling of your Bugzilla account. So, ignore this advice at your peril.
That said, Mozilla developers are generally a friendly bunch, and will be towards you as long as you follow these guidelines.
1. Commenting This is the most important section.
No pointless comments. Unless you have something constructive and helpful to say, do not add a comment to a bug. In bugs where there is a heated debate going on, you should be even more inclined not to add a comment. Unless you have something new to contribute, then the bug owner is aware of all the issues, and will make a judgement as to what to do. If you agree the bug should be fixed, vote for it. Additional "I see this too" or "It works for me" comments are unnecessary unless they are on a different platform or a significantly different build. No obligation. "Open Source" is not the same as "the developers must do my bidding." The only person who has any obligation to fix the bugs you want fixed is you. Never act as if you expect someone to fix a bug by a particular date or release. This is merely obnoxious, and is likely to get the bug ignored. No personal abuse. Bugzilla is a window into the world of Mozilla development. The fact that we permit anyone with an account to add a comment does not mean you may harass, harangue or otherwise hassle contributors. Do not make weak threats like "I won't use Mozilla until this bug is fixed!" If a respected project contributor complains about your Bugzilla attitude, then you may have your account disabled. If you don't like this possibility, become a respected project contributor. 2. Changing Fields No messing with other people's bugs. Unless you are the bug assignee, or have some say over the use of their time, never change the Priority or Target Milestone fields. If in doubt, do not change the fields of bugs you do not own - add a comment instead, suggesting the change. No whining about decisions. If a respected project contributor has marked a bug as INVALID, then it is invalid. Someone filing another duplicate of it does not change this. Unless you have further important evidence, do not post a comment arguing that an INVALID or WONTFIX bug should be reopened. 3. Applicability Some of these rules may not apply to you. If they do not, you will know exactly which ones do not, and why they do not apply. If you are not sure, then they definitely all apply to you. If you see someone not following these rules, the first step is to point this out by private mail. They may well not be aware of this document. Flaming people publically in bugs just causes resentment. In the case of persistent offending you should report the matter to Gerv.
This entire document can be summed up in one sentence: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Other useful documents: The Bug Writing Guidelines.
I'm on the 47% windows user because I'm not your typical Slashdot reader. I started reading slashdot after the newsweek article las year. I just started because I wanted to be on the loop on the latest tech trends. I don't have a job on the tech industry, but I am not completely IS illiterate, thanks to Slashdot.
Now, with that said, I use windows 95 because that is what came on the box I bought from Gateway, which still has the original AOL subscription I took from the wrappers. It does everything I want to do. Why get something else? I guess I'll change the day I can't post comments to this site...or the day I get a -1 for using windows!
Let's compare this to an automation design process:
The first step towards automation is to improve the manual process down to its least minimum number of steps. The second is to fool-proof the system so that one step immediately and without a question follows the other. The third is to simmulate the previous manual system with automation and after that is test and debug. Test and debug.
If we compare the previous steps with the implementation of the voting booths, I think we are not ready for the implementation. There are extra steps already on the process that are too redundant and don't add much value to the process. For example, why do they have to check on the huge outdated spreadsheet if you belong on the voting place? Ask ID? Isn't easier to just have some hollographic stickers come in the mail, go to the voting place and place the stickers on the form, sign and drop. So what if they can't see who is voting? They can't see who is voting on absentee ballots either!
We can all go and find what is wrong with this system. It does not take a lot of brain cells to figure out that we need to fix. Convincing our leaders that we need to fix it before we spend millions of dollars on touch screens would be the work of geniuses. .
Let's look at some of your quotes: "They feel they are entitled to the big salary coming out of college."
Before you say that again, remember that the average college grad (assuming all fields are combined) would be making somewhere in the high 30K's to low 40K's. Chances are that if you are in the high tech fields, you may make a lot more, but most of the "average" college grads come from "average" colleges, with "average" GPAs, which leave them with "average" choices, such as service industries, small businesses or some of the low-tech old economy industries. If you live on a trailer park in North Dakota, 40k is a wad of cash.
But most of these "average" college grads live on the metropolitan areas of the big cities, on bedroom communities 1-2 hours away from work, and having both spouses work to pay the bills, have reliable cars and raise families. A combination of two "average" college grads is barely enough to sustain the new couple until they get off the ground, pay their student loans, recover their credit and start saving for the house their kids will live in. And then you know the rest of the story, since I bet you are on your 60's or 70's.
Why do I say the word "average" so much? Because it seems to me that your comments go towards the fortunate few (in proportion to the US population) that have taken advantage of the new economy that is now developing, by being the pioneers on fields we were too afraid to venture in. Now, you and I are watching some of them get rich. I don't have a problem with that. We chose our paths. What I do have a problem with is trying to label the basket by the rotten few, or try to overgeneralize in an effort to demonize their intentions and justify your prejudice. The most of us are not on fat paychecks. Your paycheck may not be fat, so what's wrong with borrowing money from your grandson? Is your good ole' boy image distroyed? Get a grip!
"They feel entitled to free health care."
Yeah, right! We are paying yours!
They feel entitled to stock options.
We are not looking forward to 3% yearly increases. Just because you had no choice, does not mean we don't have either.
"They feel entitled to free web sites without any advertising."
If there are stations on cable TV that have no comercials, why shouldn't we have the same with our internet connections?
You are a lost case of senility. Go play checkers or something.
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We will go to war by breaking statues...any left out there?
Are you running just because you could, or because you should? Either answer is fine with me, since it will show us an honest side of you.
In case you can't get in from Slashdot and you are too lazy to type in the address, here it is in lazy plain text.
Bugzilla Etiquette
There's a number of faux pas you can commit when using Bugzilla. At the very least, these will make Mozilla contributors upset at you; if committed enough times they will cause those contributors to demand the disabling of your Bugzilla account. So, ignore this advice at your peril.
That said, Mozilla developers are generally a friendly bunch, and will be towards you as long as you follow these guidelines.
1. Commenting
This is the most important section.
No pointless comments. Unless you have something constructive and helpful to say, do not add a comment to a bug. In bugs where there is a heated debate going on, you should be even more inclined not to add a comment. Unless you have something new to contribute, then the bug owner is aware of all the issues, and will make a judgement as to what to do. If you agree the bug should be fixed, vote for it. Additional "I see this too" or "It works for me" comments are unnecessary unless they are on a different platform or a significantly different build.
No obligation. "Open Source" is not the same as "the developers must do my bidding." The only person who has any obligation to fix the bugs you want fixed is you. Never act as if you expect someone to fix a bug by a particular date or release. This is merely obnoxious, and is likely to get the bug ignored.
No personal abuse. Bugzilla is a window into the world of Mozilla development. The fact that we permit anyone with an account to add a comment does not mean you may harass, harangue or otherwise hassle contributors. Do not make weak threats like "I won't use Mozilla until this bug is fixed!" If a respected project contributor complains about your Bugzilla attitude, then you may have your account disabled. If you don't like this possibility, become a respected project contributor.
2. Changing Fields
No messing with other people's bugs. Unless you are the bug assignee, or have some say over the use of their time, never change the Priority or Target Milestone fields. If in doubt, do not change the fields of bugs you do not own - add a comment instead, suggesting the change.
No whining about decisions. If a respected project contributor has marked a bug as INVALID, then it is invalid. Someone filing another duplicate of it does not change this. Unless you have further important evidence, do not post a comment arguing that an INVALID or WONTFIX bug should be reopened.
3. Applicability
Some of these rules may not apply to you. If they do not, you will know exactly which ones do not, and why they do not apply. If you are not sure, then they definitely all apply to you.
If you see someone not following these rules, the first step is to point this out by private mail. They may well not be aware of this document. Flaming people publically in bugs just causes resentment. In the case of persistent offending you should report the matter to Gerv.
This entire document can be summed up in one sentence: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Other useful documents: The Bug Writing Guidelines.
I'm on the 47% windows user because I'm not your typical Slashdot reader. I started reading slashdot after the newsweek article las year. I just started because I wanted to be on the loop on the latest tech trends. I don't have a job on the tech industry, but I am not completely IS illiterate, thanks to Slashdot.
Now, with that said, I use windows 95 because that is what came on the box I bought from Gateway, which still has the original AOL subscription I took from the wrappers. It does everything I want to do. Why get something else? I guess I'll change the day I can't post comments to this site...or the day I get a -1 for using windows!
Let's compare this to an automation design process:
The first step towards automation is to improve the manual process down to its least minimum number of steps. The second is to fool-proof the system so that one step immediately and without a question follows the other. The third is to simmulate the previous manual system with automation and after that is test and debug. Test and debug.
If we compare the previous steps with the implementation of the voting booths, I think we are not ready for the implementation. There are extra steps already on the process that are too redundant and don't add much value to the process. For example, why do they have to check on the huge outdated spreadsheet if you belong on the voting place? Ask ID? Isn't easier to just have some hollographic stickers come in the mail, go to the voting place and place the stickers on the form, sign and drop. So what if they can't see who is voting? They can't see who is voting on absentee ballots either!
We can all go and find what is wrong with this system. It does not take a lot of brain cells to figure out that we need to fix. Convincing our leaders that we need to fix it before we spend millions of dollars on touch screens would be the work of geniuses.
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Los que trabajamos aqui somos los chingones. Si andas pidiendo trabajo de esta manera, vales mierda.
Let's look at some of your quotes:
"They feel they are entitled to the big salary coming out of college."
Before you say that again, remember that the average college grad (assuming all fields are combined) would be making somewhere in the high 30K's to low 40K's. Chances are that if you are in the high tech fields, you may make a lot more, but most of the "average" college grads come from "average" colleges, with "average" GPAs, which leave them with "average" choices, such as service industries, small businesses or some of the low-tech old economy industries. If you live on a trailer park in North Dakota, 40k is a wad of cash.
But most of these "average" college grads live on the metropolitan areas of the big cities, on bedroom communities 1-2 hours away from work, and having both spouses work to pay the bills, have reliable cars and raise families. A combination of two "average" college grads is barely enough to sustain the new couple until they get off the ground, pay their student loans, recover their credit and start saving for the house their kids will live in. And then you know the rest of the story, since I bet you are on your 60's or 70's.
Why do I say the word "average" so much? Because it seems to me that your comments go towards the fortunate few (in proportion to the US population) that have taken advantage of the new economy that is now developing, by being the pioneers on fields we were too afraid to venture in. Now, you and I are watching some of them get rich. I don't have a problem with that. We chose our paths. What I do have a problem with is trying to label the basket by the rotten few, or try to overgeneralize in an effort to demonize their intentions and justify your prejudice. The most of us are not on fat paychecks. Your paycheck may not be fat, so what's wrong with borrowing money from your grandson? Is your good ole' boy image distroyed? Get a grip!
"They feel entitled to free health care."
Yeah, right! We are paying yours!
They feel entitled to stock options.
We are not looking forward to 3% yearly increases. Just because you had no choice, does not mean we don't have either.
"They feel entitled to free web sites without any advertising."
If there are stations on cable TV that have no comercials, why shouldn't we have the same with our internet connections?
You are a lost case of senility. Go play checkers or something.