STORM THE JIRA!

The JIRA is a great evil, as I've written. And there are many sub-evils within it that have to be tackled. It's a great evil precisely because it's a little embryonic evil now putting down roots in the entire Metaverse that the people making it imagine should be the system of governance of this vast thing. So the time to strangle it in its cradle is *now*. Before it invades the mode of thinking and enables little cabals of people to take over lots of other people.

Please storm the JIRA and vote on this issue -- WEB 382 -- symbolic of so much that is wrong with this infernal contraption -- and stop people from arbitrarily closing and moving bugs and featurse they don't like. And hunt around for all the other many things worthy of voting for. Unfortunately, you can't vote "no" yet on anything -- it's totally rigged like a Soviet election -- but we can hopefully get that fixed when the makers of JIRA itself are overthrown.

While it may not prove technically possible to weld in a mechanism that triggers an ask for an author's consent (you wonder why not, but the makers, again, may be the problem there), by voting on this issue, you can help create a climate where these little weasel script kiddy fanboyz can stop trying to hijack things there -- they will feel some social pressure not to do so.

Since the Lindens have put up the JIRA as a form of governance in Second Life that is expressly designed diabolically to hobble democratic governance, you have two choices. You can either refuse to confer legitimacy on it and never bother with it (and I'm leaning toward that position). Or you can try to engage it on its own terms and try to overthrow it.

I'd root for the latter now, and at least make a good show of trying to fight for our rights while it's still possible to do so.

Of course, most of the population -- myself included -- didn't realize that the Lindens and their coterie completely abolished the Feature Voting Tool (which actually got a lot of enthusiastic use) and folded it into the JIRA without any discussion whatsoever (Torley and a few fanboyz presided over its secret suffocation).

I'm sorry I missed that -- but it's in part because when I asked about it repeatedly, in meetings or emails, I'd be blown off with an airy assurance that it was being "improved" and "worked on" -- which of course means now that Workingonit Linden was putting a bullet in its brain in the basement.

A good example of residents standing up to the utter horseshit of the coding Lindens is the storming that took place over the issue of the BBC code on the vBulletin (our forums, and the way you can't post pictures, have links or bold, etc. because it's "broken). It isn't really "broken," as there is a fix for it that requires just some time and concentration -- something the Lindens don't want to make a priority. The sheer utter belligerence and nastiness of these kids who decide "it's not a priority"

Tackling the JIRA is part of tackling the entire insolent and arrogant coder culture of Linden Lab that has to go if it's ever to be a normal place. There's nothing that says even a software company with geeks in it *has* to be like this.

The awful script-kiddies that the Lindens attract to the JIRA -- and these lifer/loser adults who have too much time on their hands -- are an even more awful facet of the JIRA. The make it particularly repugnant because they spend a lot of time just trying to thwart the non-tekkie classes of SL, not really in solving bugs.

Lex Neva, for example, would bitch that voting wasn't on in the JIRA back in January so that he couldn't filter out proposals he felt weren't relevant, something that the late Jesse Malthus challenged him on (and to which Lex made a nasty reply!), but then Lex also paradoxically bitched that residents could edit each other's proposals.

There really is nothing more idiotic than a fake collaborative project that presupposes that some people get to remove content of others and pretends there is a shared understanding and consent for this. There isn't. It's predicated on this gung-ho but infantile culture of coders in which they imagine they all function as hive mind on these things. even they don't.

And when they do, it's only to represent their sect.

This began clear to me not even from my own study, but from the very helpful comment by Mercia, who pointed out that all economic bugs are never called SHOWSTOPPERS to these tekkies, because they care not a fig for the economy. Content bugs/features of course are only slightly less of a priority -- instead they thrive on exotic sub-sets of arcane functions that just happen to fascinate them technically.

A very instructive artifact is the list of the 993 resolved bug issues by number of votes. Yes, just 993, and none of them feel like they really did the job, eh?

A few items near the top are readily identifiable as "showstoppers" -- notecards don't work, or a certain version makes Sprintnet not work.

But then you get things like this from Pet Project Promoter Qarl Linden, "Sculpties suffer HORRIBLY from JPEG artifacts".

So? Like...we care? Like...that can't wait? The list of obscure and outrageous things done on this "showstopper" or "serious" list just boggles you. I can't possibly do it justice by describing it -- just go and browse it!

Then you get fake-resolved issues like "Group IMs not working properly" -- something that plagues SL to this day. Ordinal Malaprop has a very good proposal about issues that are marked "resolved internall" but not REALLY resolved and put in the patch -- that is, there is a lag between a resident making a patch, or a Linden coding something, and it working, but then it being tested and put in the final viewer.

However -- so indicative of this damn thing! -- I can't find it now because searching "resolved internally" or "Ordinal Malaprop" or other terms just can't pull it out of the soup. Ordinal, post the number of your idea so we can vote for it if you read this!

Comments

[Ann Otoole]

just in time for your article: can't log in to jira to vote. just hourglasses.

figures.

i gave up on the jira after i found out the developers don't see it. they have a separate internal form of jira they work from and torely has to move items from the public jira to the internal jira before they get addressed. so we can use jira all we want. its just a holding pen to delude people into thinking they are helping.

Linden Research has a huge and increasing problem with ethics.

[Prokofy Neva]

Oh, I realize that. It's a chimera. It's worse than a holding pen -- it's a culdesac.

What's even more "ethics-challenged" than the feigning of paying attention to people appearing to be voting on bugs and fixing them moving them up the chain, is the illusion that once they are fixed by the resident bug hunters, or even Lindens, that they are now really "resolved" and we're going to see them in a patch. I've discovered that *that* is where the real scam lies, because these random 993 fixed bugs many of which are not mission-critical, just sit there as many more colourful and shiny things need to go in before them.

[Ann Otoole]

Ann Otoole closed VWR-3256.
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Resolution: Fixed Internally

closing. jira is crap. it is not controlled by linden research and i
did not agree to some asshole named lex neva having admin powers over my
entries. kiss off you idiotic communists.

> effect of invisiprims migrates to all prims in a sim
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: VWR-3256
> URL: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3256
> Project: 1. Second Life Viewer - VWR
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Graphics
> Affects Versions: First Look: WindLight
> Environment: nVidea 9800 pro
> Reporter: Ann Otoole
> Priority: Major
>
> After zooming to inspect an object with invisiprims (shoes, etc)
prims in the area also begin to go invisible. this can be corrected with a
relog. however the problem is the number of customers of secondlife
using invisiprims is huge so this is a major defect.

[James]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting

Approval voting is not "rigged like a Soviet election," even if its the most vocal proponent tends to call people fascist.

[Prokofy Neva]

Of course approval voting is a Soviet election. It's the most pernicious things on two legs. It's gamed and manipulated even worse than its proponents claim "no" voting is.

This Wikipedia, like other elements of Wikipedia, naturally tend to portray favourably anything that helps keep the whole Wiki World in business.

[Prokofy Neva]

The other point to make is that in a place like Memphis, let's say, if they used approval voting in quite the way this article claims, the *fielding of candidates* was done in a way that involved choice, deliberation, an informed public, and possibly even votes within parties that had a yes/no function or a plurality of yes versus no.

So to contrast that sort of "approval voting" whose candidates emerge in a different organic and democratic way (to presume it was done ideally) is completely different than the start coder-induced propositions for the mechanics of a world like SL, put on a JIRA.

You don't get to frame the vote on the JIRA with democratic institutions. You do in Memphis. Big difference. Give me Memphis any day.

[WarKirby Magojiro]

hahah

Jira is a great evil.

You are comedy gold.

[WarKirby Magojiro]

Also, Ann. DEvelopers DO see the public jira. And make extensive use of it.

Soft Linden (a developer) has been listening to community opinions here:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-774

On what to do with this exploit.

Developers look at the public jira all the time. And it's an efficient, organised way to track issues. The FVT was a holding pen. Jira is not.

[Prokofy Neva]

The FVT was not at all a holding pen, as the Lindens frequently commented on it. It's just that young WarKirby doesn't know history. And they commented on blogs, even, and it's not for them to comment anyway until something is gelled enough to present to them with some significant support.

The idea that you should indulge the rulers in precooking issues by being in your hair while cooking them is appalling.

It's one of the hobbles of the JIRA.

[Chris]

Be vigilant. Be pure.

Storm the JIRA!

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