Maybe I'm overreacting here, but if one of my coworkers set up their own bug-tracking system and used it to repeatedly nag me about bugs I hadn't fixed yet, it

Maybe I'm overreacting here, but if one of my coworkers set up their own bug-tracking system and used it to repeatedly nag me about bugs I hadn't fixed yet, it would probably convince me to write them off as a passive-aggressive whiner long before it would help me to "see the value of bug tracking". Why aren't they emailing me (personally) or asking me to fix it to my face instead, first? Granted, Joel's flagship product is a bug tracker, so maybe that's part of it. It's hardly a flattering plug, though -- like the time I saw a pulp paperback in a used book store that had some sort of endorsement deal with HeftyTM trash bags.