alt Hacker NewsIn Scotland, they close an issue by taking a vote of "OK", "Broken", or "Not Proven".
I believe they also have attorneys. Perhaps that's how Apple could make bug-tracking more effective -- hire a prosecuting attorney and a defending attorney for each bug.
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aworks • today at 12:09 AM
I was an development tools engineering manager who was in enumerable "bug scrubs" to triage the flow.
Sometimes I would advocate based on business reasons to fix the bug. Or to de-prioritize it or close it. I took every side possible, depending. As did the more pragmatic of the engineers.
I miss the give and take, if not the feeling of perpetual technical debt.
Not any more, 'Not proven' was abolished at the start of this year.