{"id":103613,"date":"2020-03-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=103613"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:28:54","slug":"20200330-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20200330-00\/?p=103613\/","title":{"rendered":"A sneaky way to make sure nobody assigns test failures to your team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Windows division, we have a number of internal tools. One of them is for assigning test failures.<\/p>\n<p>I needed to assign a test failure to another team. I entered the team&#8217;s email alias into the tool, but the tool rejected it. The team&#8217;s email alias was 21 characters long, but the tool&#8217;s limit is only 20 characters. (This is a very old tool, and my guess is that at the time the tool was written, email aliases were only 8 characters long. &#8220;Twenty characters should be enough for anyone.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a sneaky way to make sure nobody assigns test failures to your team.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related reading<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090901-00\/?p=16903\"> One way to make sure nobody sends you feedback<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150203-00\/?p=44763\"> Another way to make sure nobody sends you feedback<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffer overflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-103613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Buffer overflow.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}