Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibility of the website

Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by uberman on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:34AM (#21353930)

There are probably dozens of reasons both good and bad for preventing fly by night change requests. Some of them would depend on the size of your company. Is this the work the company wants you to do or are you off the on your own?

Tossing aside the accessibility angle, fly by night changes often have ramifications that the authors did not anticipate. I have and would again veto change requests that not part of our planning process and offered as: "Surprise, here is this cool thing I did."

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Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by maury91 on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:42AM (#21353985)

however, his reason is none of them, his reason is "no one complained about it"

other developers reviewed the change and have been tested to be sure we don't have regressions. The company is small, we are only 6 frontend devs.

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Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by uberman on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:48AM (#21354872)

Perhaps he is demonstrating that this type of behavior is not wanted. Was there a bug report or jira issue? If not, why are you using company resources on pet projects? I believe this is what he is telling you.

You see that other devs have already reviewed the changes as a good thing. In my opinion this is the kiss of death for your case. Not only are you working on un-prioritized work but now others are as well.

Work on stuff that has been prioritized. Don't get side tracked on work that has not been prioritized. If you believe it is important work, submit a bug report or feature request and get it prioritized. Then you can legit fix it and get it folded in.

I know it seems petty, and I have been guilty of 'drive by refactoring" when I was a junior dev so I understand the temptation to "fix things".

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Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by maury91 on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:55AM (#21354954)

This "bug" is a violation of the Equality Act, and so can have legal consequence if a customer reports it.

This is the type of issues you want to fix before are reported, not after.

It's like waiting for someone to die before adding a zebra crossing.

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Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by uberman on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:46AM (#21355479)

So, you did not submit a bug or an enhancement request I take it. You unilaterally decided that your code change was more important than the work assigned to you by your company.

If it was/is that important then you can create a ticket right?

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Re:Ask HN: I found opposition when improving the accessibili... by maury91 on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:59AM (#21355655)

the ticket exists and has been reviewed by a Product Owner, however, the other dev doesn't accept it because it's not submitted by a customer

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