{"id":27234,"date":"2019-11-07T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:06","slug":"they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"They Might Never Tell You It&rsquo;s Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pointersgonewild.com\/2019\/11\/02\/they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken\/\">Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pointersgonewild.com\/2019\/11\/02\/they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken\/\">\n<p>The more important lesson, that I didn&rsquo;t understand until that point, is that you can&rsquo;t count on the people trying your project to quickly and reliably signal bugs to you. Most of the time, if it doesn&rsquo;t work, they won&rsquo;t report the problem.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a horrifying thought, but it could be that for every one person who opens an issue on GitHub, 100 or more people have already tried your project, run into that same bug, and simply moved on. So, what can you do? You can encourage people to report bugs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/feedback-assistant-replaces-bug-reporter\/\">Feedback Assistant Replaces Bug Reporter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/the-sad-state-of-logging-bugs-for-apple\/\">The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert: The more important lesson, that I didn&rsquo;t understand until that point, is that you can&rsquo;t count on the people trying your project to quickly and reliably signal bugs to you. Most of the time, if it doesn&rsquo;t work, they won&rsquo;t report the problem. [&#8230;] It&rsquo;s a horrifying thought, but it could be that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"46cc0b13-3e4f-44ee-8356-66888bf2d7db","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARswLEz5PRO6DVmaIi_LX2w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,991,71],"class_list":["post-27234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bugtracking","tag-open-source-software","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27235,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions\/27235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}