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A comment on The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999). Parent comment

Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by emodendroket on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:52AM (#35944011)
I interpret it as synonymous with "found" here -- someone "characterizing" the bug finds it and opens a bug report.
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by throwaway173738 on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:58AM (#35948210)
In professional engineering, you characterize the behavior after someone finds and reports it. Or you characterize a flow transducer, or you characterize gas circuit compliance. It’s the thing you do once you know there’s something to characterize.
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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by emodendroket on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:37PM (#35950927)
OK. Well in the variety of work I do, which I suppose isn’t professional by this standard, typically the person who finds a bug and the person who describes it are one and the same.
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