Is there a process for reviewing a bugzilla staffer?

[Kuba Ober]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a formal process for reviewing an arguably incompetent bugzilla
> > staffer? Obviously it wouldn't be to submit their name as a bug. But is
> > there any defined administrative layer that concerns itself with people
> > on that level who are dragging on the project?
> >
> > I looked around a bit for information on this. Sorry if it's posted
> > somewhere and I missed it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Whit
>
> To spare everyone time and to skip directly to an entertainment see bug
> 9147: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9147

I agree with Whit. Most of your writing in that bug report would be in line 
with lack of sleep or prolonged fatigue, or some other factor that causes you 
to be compartmentalized in your own verions of things and completely ignore 
the real issue at hand.

Similar behavioral pattern that happened on China Airlines Flight 006. The 
resemblance is striking: the pilots completely unaware of what the real 
problem is, and were dealing with non-issues (rather than fluing the plane). 
Similar thing here: the user tells you one thing (the real issue), your 
situational awareness is as if something entirely different has been taking 
place (dupes, etc). Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006

http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/ChinaAir/AAR8603.html

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.79.html

[...] the captain had become so preoccupied with the dwindling
airspeed that he failed to note that the autopilot, which relied on ailerons
only, not the rudder, to maintain heading, was using the maximum left control-
wheel deflection available to it to overcome the thrust asymmetry due to the 
hung outboard engine. When the right wing nevertheless began to drop, ...
the captain didn't notice the bank on the attitude indicator ... . When he
did notice it, he refused to believe what he saw. At this point, ... the
upset had begun and the captain and first officer were both spatially 
disorientated.

You can almost substitute terms from the bugreport for the flying terms 
above...


Common thing to happen when you're tired, distracted, etc. So this is nothing 
personal, just noticing a pretty common problem. BTDT, one has to learn to 
recognize the first signs and take a break (helps me). At least here it won't 
kill anyone. Now, if you *are* sleeping well (and long enough), and are not 
tired, then IANAD and wouldn't know what to do either...

Cheers, Kuba