Re:Issue and Pull Request templates
by masklinn on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:06AM
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> Devils advocate: if you think it is important, then why don't you want to know when it's fixed?
Because I've implemented a workaround (after spending a few hours tearing my hair out wondering why the straightforward version didn't work) and I may or may not ever remove the workaround, not to mention I might have dropped the project or changed company entirely by then.
I may or may not care that it's fixed (though I probably do in the chance that I have to do this again in the future and have by then forgotten about the need for a workaround), but I do want to notify somebody that I have hit that issue and have had to work around it, and that it would be nice if future users didn't go through my own experience.
Because I've implemented a workaround (after spending a few hours tearing my hair out wondering why the straightforward version didn't work) and I may or may not ever remove the workaround, not to mention I might have dropped the project or changed company entirely by then.
I may or may not care that it's fixed (though I probably do in the chance that I have to do this again in the future and have by then forgotten about the need for a workaround), but I do want to notify somebody that I have hit that issue and have had to work around it, and that it would be nice if future users didn't go through my own experience.