Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

["Scott Preece" <sepreece@gmail.com>]

On 5/18/07, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705181200440.18186@localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> >> bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because
> >> not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs.
> >                       ^^^^^^^ ^^^^
> >
> > you might want to find a less demeaning term for debugging than
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I'm pretty sure an economist would describe debugging as wasted time
(non-value-add). The point being, of course, that the original coder's
mistakes caused someone else to have to waste time, time that could
otherwise have been spent adding value, fixing the problem.

However, it might be phrased more diplomatically in this context, like
"because you are sacrificing time that could be spent adding features,
to fix somebody else's mistakes".

scott