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My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report.
- Mz 13y agoExcerpt: Tell them this is only an amateurish name for the Root Cause field used by professionals (when issue tracker does not have dedicated field, one can use comments for that). Search the web for something like software bug root cause analysis, there are plenty of resources to justify this reasoning 1, 2, 3, 4, .... ...a root cause for a defect is not always a single developer (which is the main point of this field)... That's exactly why "root cause" is professional while "person to blame" is amateurish. Personal accountability is great, but there are cases when it simply lays "outside" of the dev team. And links to something previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4179298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4179298