Everything's a Bug (Or an Issue)

a year ago

The author shares a story about their first Silicon Valley job and introduces the concept of 'bug council' as an efficient way to manage software projects.
Bug council involved the entire product team reviewing a prioritized list of bugs, updating statuses, and making real-time adjustments to priorities or assignments.
Four key principles were identified as crucial for effective project management: universal task entry into the bug system, a fixed and opinionated bug record schema, single-person assignment for each bug, and powerful, flexible queries for viewing bug lists.
The author critiques modern tools like GitHub Issues for lacking these principles, highlighting issues with schema consistency, assignment clarity, and query flexibility.
Alternatives such as GitLab and Bitbucket are mentioned but deemed insufficient. The author suggests enhancing open-source projects like Gitea to incorporate the missing features.
A feature added to Gitea allows sorting bugs by priority, showcasing how open-source projects can be improved to better align with the 'bug council way' of project management.

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