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It's nice to bring interesting bugs to light, but I hate how posting links to bugs always results in a pile on of useless comments. It evens says "Each comment
by supersillyus 15y ago
It's nice to bring interesting bugs to light, but I hate how posting links to bugs always results in a pile on of useless comments. It evens says "Each comment triggers notification emails. So, please do not post "+1 Me too!".
Instead, click the star icon." next to the comment box, but people apparently think things like "please try to fix it , security on mobile devices need to be more powerful" are worth emailing 500+ people about.
In a sense, it may be Google Code's fault; they shouldn't call them "comments". It's the same terminology that is used on YouTube, HN, and other such sites where people who aren't involved are free to weigh in with whatever they say (albeit with moderation and voting). It should probably be called a "Status update" or some such, as that would give a more accurate impression of what that box is for.
- spolsky 15y agoI completely don't understand these public bug tracking systems that turn into YouTube threads, for all intents and purposes. How does any working engineer get anything done like that?
- jed_s 15y agoThey don't. Issue 7589: Android dev team ignores its own bugtracker http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7589 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7589