Can You Repeat That?

March 21, 2005 11:55 am General

The following contains hugely sensitive internal material. If you understand this, you can have my job.

Unfortunately, every so often you are simply unlucky. Today was one of those days. While going through my mail boxes at the weekend, I noticed a bug mail with an MR [Multiple Release], and an associating SubCR [Sub-Change Request]. Haha, easy you say? I went ‘bugger me, what’s that?’ and forwarded on the mail to my QA buddy, Shane. He replied back that it was multiple release bug that required a patch for a given release of Solaris, and pointed that I had to get approval through the IPR system [Internal Patch Request]. Right, of course. Fortunately one of our team has had to go through that process, and very usefully wrote out a series of steps. After raising and approving the IPR [and having needed contact names, phone numbers and emails for various bits of the form], I have to raise an PRF [Patch Request Form], which needs an associating CRT [Change Request Tracker]. Are you following yet? I’m currently on step 3 of a 9 step process, and each step feels completely disconnected from the previous and next steps.

I love Sun, don’t get me wrong, but I sometimes feels the various processes that we’ve set up really kill the average developer’s productivity, sanity and progress within Sun.

I’m going on holiday tommorrow. My timing is impeccable!

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