On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Whit Blauvelt wrote:
Hi,
Is there a formal process for reviewing an arguably incompetent bugzilla staffer? Obviously it wouldn't be to submit their name as a bug. But is there any defined administrative layer that concerns itself with people on that level who are dragging on the project?
I looked around a bit for information on this. Sorry if it's posted somewhere and I missed it.
Thanks, Whit
To spare everyone time and to skip directly to an entertainment see bug 9147: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9147
I agree with Whit. Most of your writing in that bug report would be in line with lack of sleep or prolonged fatigue, or some other factor that causes you to be compartmentalized in your own verions of things and completely ignore the real issue at hand.
Similar behavioral pattern that happened on China Airlines Flight 006. The resemblance is striking: the pilots completely unaware of what the real problem is, and were dealing with non-issues (rather than fluing the plane). Similar thing here: the user tells you one thing (the real issue), your situational awareness is as if something entirely different has been taking place (dupes, etc). Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/ChinaA...
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.79.html
[...] the captain had become so preoccupied with the dwindling airspeed that he failed to note that the autopilot, which relied on ailerons only, not the rudder, to maintain heading, was using the maximum left control- wheel deflection available to it to overcome the thrust asymmetry due to the hung outboard engine. When the right wing nevertheless began to drop, ... the captain didn't notice the bank on the attitude indicator ... . When he did notice it, he refused to believe what he saw. At this point, ... the upset had begun and the captain and first officer were both spatially disorientated.
You can almost substitute terms from the bugreport for the flying terms above...
Common thing to happen when you're tired, distracted, etc. So this is nothing personal, just noticing a pretty common problem. BTDT, one has to learn to recognize the first signs and take a break (helps me). At least here it won't kill anyone. Now, if you *are* sleeping well (and long enough), and are not tired, then IANAD and wouldn't know what to do either...
Cheers, Kuba