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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by lbriner on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:40PM (#26227469)
If they were design and requirements then fine, but you cannot consider something that was not asked or paid for as a bug. As with many cock-ups, somebody did not know enough to ask for the right thing.

On top of that, someone should have been in the room to tell the State Governor that their proposed change was not supported in software and needed something out-of-band to manage it.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by tshaddox on Monday February 22, 2021 @12:53PM (#26227682)
It’s still a bug, even if the project managers or software engineers are not responsible for causing the bug. I think people are just using “it’s not a bug” to mean “it’s not my fault as a member of the software engineering team.” But of course there are bugs which are not the software engineering team’s fault.
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