Talk is cheap. Like most people I love to consider interesting problems and chat about them, but my success currently at work is defined by interpreting, isolating and reproducing bugs.
My work since joining Automattic would not make good conversation pieces.
I am learning a lot. It has been hard work and will continue to be.
I have focused almost exclusively on bug gardening and isolating problems for WordPress and internally for WordPress.com . Before I came on board Matt was honest that it would probably take six months to clean up the tickets.
I have lots of ideas (and expertise) for various projects, but the quantity of bug reports needs my focus.
Slowly, I make progress — it is the customer, tester, and developer communities that make progress possible. Reporting problem well; isolating the problems and testing solutions; and fixing and testing their fixes. These people are the best!
It is hard to work with the very best, because they challenge me to great. I love the learning and the challenge! I enjoy even more the team, communities and products.
I would not mind if it takes any extra six months to get the bug gardens in order, if that was because more people were participating in reporting problems, testing, and developing WordPress.
Comments like Josh Wilkens‘ “Mom always said you can’t play with your toys until you’ve done your chores” expressing his disappointment with Flock’s lack of release in seven months, and Matt’s post Disconnect and the comments help keep my focused, and also relate why sometimes it is hard to take a break to blog.
I stay focused, one bug at a time.
