Had to laugh at the lastest TR release notes

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Mostly surprised that athletes read the release notes. :laughing:

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Next release note

  • Fixed issue with the release notes :grinning:
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I always read them!

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Surprised? Most athletes are also geeks. We use technology everywhere! We read release notes to see if something is new or fixed.

:rofl:

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Not me. I write Git commit messages for all the software changes I do and I’m the only developer! I’ve also been known to write documentation :flushed: :rofl:

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Most of my git commits messages are similar to

Peer review related changes

The other are

Initial delivery

yet I hate when companies put stuff “bug fixes” as release notes :man_shrugging:

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Damn right!
We are athletes wearing spandex!

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Thanks for jumping in on this topic and for owning up to such incredible incompetence :wink:

Outlining more of what was fixed is understandable in some circumstances, but as a fellow developer I understand the brevity and vagueness of them as well. Really how detailed should they be anyways??

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Yes! I do this same thing for my future self.

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Ha Ha, I’ve never read the release notes.

Not sure what a bug is .Mine seem to be crawling around the floor, and havent managed to acces my TR account. Good job too as their FTP would be higher than mine :blush:

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One company I worked at, a senior engineer would just put:

bug fix

as their commit message. Gaah! I always used to reject their submission if it came to me for code review :wink:

I have come across some good ones though:

some notes for the great unwashed.

Leeds United buy Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank for £1.5m

being a couple of more memorable. The latter was an accident (not the purchase of the footballer) - he meant to paste it into the instant message client to send to an engineer who was a Leeds fan but put it in the VCS and hit commit before he realised!

Perhaps the worst was:

X Y is a bi***!

Where “X Y” was the name of the client’s project manager and the commit message turned up in the release notes!

I was told to write code and accompanying documentation as if the next engineer working on it was a 600lb gorilla with a bad temper who knew where you lived :grinning:

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