{"id":26823,"date":"2007-05-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/17\/were-all-in-this-together-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-redux\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:00:00","slug":"were-all-in-this-together-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070517-00\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"We're all in this together: No good deed goes unpunished, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were several suggestions as to how I could avoid being tagged as the owner of an issue because I helped route the problem<\/a>. Many of them involved assigning the bug back to the testers to “teach them a lesson”.\n Punishing the tester doesn’t help the product.\n Remember, we’re all in this together. The goal is to fix bugs and ship a quality product.† Being vindictive doesn’t further that goal. Especially one suggestion<\/a> which was to resolve the bug as “Won’t fix” with the reason “Tester is an idiot.” That may make you feel better, but it is a total disservice to your customers.\n It’s almost certainly a sign of dysfunction in a product when the team members spend more time sniping at each other than they do actually working on the product. It’s a team effort. Let’s try to act like a team.<\/p>\n

†Pre-emptive snarky comment<\/b>: “Hey, bozos! Why not try doing it for once!” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were several suggestions as to how I could avoid being tagged as the owner of an issue because I helped route the problem. Many of them involved assigning the bug back to the testers to “teach them a lesson”. Punishing the tester doesn’t help the product. Remember, we’re all in this together. The goal […]<\/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":[133,26],"class_list":["post-26823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

There were several suggestions as to how I could avoid being tagged as the owner of an issue because I helped route the problem. Many of them involved assigning the bug back to the testers to “teach them a lesson”. Punishing the tester doesn’t help the product. Remember, we’re all in this together. The goal […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823","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=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/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=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}