{"id":3748,"date":"2014-03-07T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2014-03-07T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:46:38","slug":"new-jira-launches-with-a-12-fingered-feature-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"New Jira Launches With A 12 Fingered Feature Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linden Lab yesterday announced that the new Jira<\/a>, not quite as good as the old old Jira but far better than the previous Jira, was now live. One point that they have highlighted is that the visibility of bug reports made during the dark ages of the Jira will not be reversed, those reports will still only be available to the reporter, Lindens and The Chosen Few, not to be confused with Chosen Few the avatar.<\/p>\n

Linden Lab explained their reasons for the decision in the blog post :<\/p>\n

One of the questions we\u2019ve seen in the past week is how previously submitted issues would be treated – namely, will those also be viewable by everyone and open for comment prior to being triaged?<\/em><\/p>\n

While we want to make issues visible for the reasons described in our last post, we\u2019re not going to extend this to old issues, because at the time they were created, users knew that those reports would have limited visibility and they may have included sensitive and\/or private information. We don\u2019t want to take information that someone thought would be private and suddenly make that visible to everyone, so the new visibility settings will apply only to new issues.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can recall arguments like this being made about the availability of old forum content. The old forums required you to be logged in to view them but the archives these days don’t. I know some people weren’t happy about that, for the reasons stated above actually. I’m not 100% convinced by this argument because even with limited visibility people should have been careful with their information, but there’s definitely a case for keeping those issues largely hidden out of respect and it’s really not worth getting in a pickle about this in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n

One feature of the Jira is the return of the new feature request and as Fenix over at SLUniverse reports<\/a>, an early feature request in the new form had a rather bizarre suggestion:<\/p>\n

Six fingers per hand<\/a><\/p>\n

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The request, which is now closed had the following specifications:<\/p>\n

How would you like the feature to work?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I would like support for up to six fingers on each hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This way we can count to twelve and \u6d41\u308c\u661f more easily.<\/em><\/p>\n

The reporter, a certain Maestro Tester has not responded to the initial request, I suspect this may be due to Maestro moonlighting as a Linden.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the good news is the Jira is back in a sensible form, the bad news is that avatars aren’t going to get six fingers on each hand. More importantly, please don’t try and re-open this request, please use the Jira wisely, it’s a fantastic resource, don’t blow it.<\/p>\n

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