Okay, I’m a bit taken by surprise on this one, but let’s quickly take this from the top. Firstly, Linden Lab has added a simplified reporting form for Second Life JIRA issues. That part is pretty okay (and some might say that it is many years overdue) being that it is the sort of bug-reporting form that you might see for many major pieces of software, but that increases the triage-level workload on reports significantly. Now, that triage process has so far been split between the Second Life JIRA users and Linden Lab.
There’s a couple problems with bug triaging though. The first is that the Second Life JIRA users do it badly. The second is that Linden Lab do it badly. Okay, so issue triaging becomes more complicated now. So, ouch, right there.
At least partly because it only really works with standard prims, you know, being a prim-alignment tool.
It’s now the seventh day of the disruption of Second Life traffic statistics. I’m going to use this particular issue to talk about feedback and communication, because today is the first day that Linden Lab has produced any on the issue.
The idea of process and procedure is often demeaned and maligned. Bureaucracy, red-tape, checks-and-balances, a waste of time.