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Why is this labeled a postmortem?
by cyounkins 5y ago
Why is this labeled a postmortem?
- jph 5y agoIt's a write-up done after the end of the problem, that aims to address some of the questions that people asked. Some teams use other terms such as after-actions, or post-incidents, or retro-reports, etc.
- cyounkins 5y agoI'm familiar, and have wrote them myself. The "mortem" part of "postmortem" means death, so they are usually written after something has died or failed, like a startup or a project, and the document explains why it failed. Having "postmortem" in the title implies the language bot failed. I don't think this is what you meant.
- jph 5y agoYes you're correct, the GitHub language bot failed. It created a bunch of incorrect changes and pull requests that repo teams rejected. It caused many complaints to the author and to me. The author disabled it a few hours later.
- spzb 5y agoYou mean, it's discriminatory against people who aren't breathing any more?