[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

Bo Thorsen bthorsen at ics.com
Fri Apr 12 09:09:02 CEST 2013


Den 11-04-2013 21:52, BRM skrev:
> Well put. Build the business case that they add appropriate support for
> developers - even if it's simply being added to a special 'developers'
> group to get the extra permissions.
> But most likely, you'll find that it isn't just developers that are
> having that problem - which can actually be fortunate as some PHB's
> might decide to just axe the group complaining until the realize its
> everyone.

Worse, the PHB might just decide that if Qt is this difficult to 
support, then it's not worth it, and will axe Qt use.

Bo.

>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>     *To:* interest at qt-project.org
>     *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:16 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of
>     dependency bloat!
>
>     On quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2013 12.55.21, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
>      > If you are one of less than a dozen people who could conceivably
>     use this
>      > kind  of access and there are over 10000 other employees who
>     definitely do
>      > not need it, a large company IT department tends to have a kind of
>      > perspective that may seem condescending to you. Compared with those
>      > thousands of others, the protection of production equipment, and
>     protecting
>      > their own backsides you find yourself at a severely limited priority.
>      >
>      > Reality Sucks A Lot.
>
>     I know... unfortunately, reality sucks in those cases.
>
>     But it will never change if we bow down and accept it.
>
>     Whenever you're faced with such a problem, make sure your manager
>     knows it.
>     Put it in bold letters in your status reports like "work
>     compromised" and
>     "unable to make all deliverables". Report to your manager how much
>     down time
>     you had waiting for a solution that didn't come, how it impacted
>     your work,
>     etc.
>
>     I'm not asking anyone to risk their job security. But work with your
>     manager
>     and let them know that you're not getting the infrastructure and
>     tools to do
>     your job effectively.
>
>     If you can, work with the manager to produce some numbers showing
>     the company
>     how much time is wasted by you and your colleagues and convert that
>     to money.
>     The total of the waste in a department might be enough to get some
>     changes
>     started.
>
>     --
>     Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>        Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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