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> I also occasionally returned to issues that hadn’t been resolved to [..] ask if there was an ETA on a fix. I felt I was being helpful. I irrationally get ann
by cube00 4y ago
> I also occasionally returned to issues that hadn’t been resolved to [..] ask if there was an ETA on a fix. I felt I was being helpful.
I irrationally get annoyed when someone asks for an ETA like this, I'm sure it's a genuine question but it just feels like a nag to "hurry the fork up already!"
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoSometimes people would like just a ballpark. Is this going to be looked at this year? At all? Is it on roadmap? Should I wait a week or just carry on with my own patch, work around it, or go with an alternative solution? A ballpark response may at least add enough clarity for people to know how to proceed in the meantime. "I'll look into it real soon now" out of some unwarranted sense of duty and then a year of radio silence is not helpful. "ETA" sure is a wrong term. (You're not my manager! Argh!!!) However, work enough in a corporate setting, and those words firmly suck into you and it takes a time to unlearn them. ETA, touch base, circle back to (or worse, faux military vocabulary in a company that has jack to do with military, my pet peeve). Unless they go out of their way to be pushy, you may as well not assume ill intent where there's only a professional deformation.