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Put if your MR is just one line of code and it took you two weeks, you still have the same problem.
by croes 2y ago
Put if your MR is just one line of code and it took you two weeks, you still have the same problem.
- Neywiny 2y agoAgreed. That's why the documentation is important. If the issue ticket says "I saw this but once. It took 2 days of reproducing and it could only be done if the moon was in a waning phase while 3 dogs bathed simultaneously" and "this is the log dump. You can see on line 3453 that we segfault" etc, it shows what you've been doing. The way I felt the article should be interpreted is that yes, if after 2 weeks you have a 1 line change, that's going to get you fired. And debatably it should, given that it'll likely take somebody else another 2 weeks to fix a similar problem. Why would a manager want to pay 2 weeks salary for (what we call, unsure if commonly used) "tribal knowledge"? At least do a post-mortem/lessons-learnt