{"id":915,"date":"2020-11-01T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2020-10-31T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T16:45:12","slug":"is-this-just-rearranging-deck-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/01\/is-this-just-rearranging-deck-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this just rearranging deck chairs ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the forum theres a long thread about altering how the points in Feedback work and how they can be assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have to admit that from my perspective, and seemingly from others, the issue is not so much with gathering reports, but the &#8220;processes&#8221; that occur after gathering reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently we can assign points to reports by making them favourites. This at least indicates the 5 items each person considers high priority. And because more points go to higher priced licenses it also gives people who hold Pro and Pro+ licenses more influence when they do select a case to be a favourite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xojo frequently says that feedback is NOT the only criteria they use. They also consider the scope of the issue. I&#8217;m not sure how they assess this though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t that what a lot of users making a case one of their top 5 cases _should_ indicate already ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if the points system is overhauled does that changes the internal processes they have around Feedback ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What priority _should_ a bug that causes a reproducible crash have &#8211; whether it has points assigned or not ? Or an exception that causes the IDE to lose whatever it is you&#8217;ve been working on ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would seem to me that those kinds of nicely reproducible bugs that cause fatal problems should have high priority regardless of how many points they have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d think the KIND of case matters &#8211; sometimes more than how many points it has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Thom said on that thread <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>That\u2019s where I think Feedback\u2019s effort needs to be. The human element. Not to say the technical element is perfect, of course.<\/p><cite>https:\/\/forum.xojo.com\/t\/the-feedback-points-system\/57327\/37<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thom wrote the initial versions of Feedback &#8211; they been updated since &#8211; but he&#8217;s not wrong. He worked at Xojo. As did I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case report acquisition isnt the issue. And in my opinion rearranging or redefining the points system is just rearranging deck chairs and not dealing with the actual problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the forum theres a long thread about altering how the points in Feedback work and how they can be assigned. I have to admit that from my perspective, and seemingly from others, the issue is not so much with gathering reports, but the &#8220;processes&#8221; that occur after gathering reports. Currently we can assign points &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/01\/is-this-just-rearranging-deck-chairs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this just rearranging deck chairs ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}