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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 23:47:03 JST Rich Felker

   🤬 antipattern in FOSS maintained by businesses:

   "Thank you for for your report. I created internal issue [obvious JIRA id string] to investigate."

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 00:46:39 JST Rich Felker

     in reply to

     Is it really too much to ask for employees who work with public-facing FOSS component of your stack to know how to use your public bug tracker and communicate/interact with users, rather than moving everything to your internal private JIRA?

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     Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 01:11:08 JST Andrew Zonenberg

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     @dalias b... but then the public might be able to see that our code isn't perfect!

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 01:11:08 JST Rich Felker

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     • Andrew Zonenberg

     @azonenberg Their code which... [checks notes]... is published in git...

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 01:20:41 JST aburka 🫣

     in reply to

     @dalias I've been using ticket IDs as opaque error codes in crash messages