How You Talk Yourself Out of Reporting a Bug

I want to tell you about Proper Bug Reports, because it’s a thing worth knowing, except that it’s totally at odds with the point of this entreaty. Ok, at severe risk of making the perfect the enemy of the good, we shall now tell you about Proper Bug Reports, which are like so:

What You Did (AKA Steps to Reproduce) Create a new Do More goal at a rate of 2 whatevers per week Enter a new datapoint for today with a value of 800080 (the hex code for purple) and comment “#color” That the datapoint would be plotted way above the yellow brick road and for the yellow brick road to be yellow. Also, those three pieces of a Proper Bug Report — steps to reproduce, what you expected, what actually happens — are from Joel Spolsky and I think are pretty standard in software engineering.

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