Everyone knows that bug trackers are where bug reports go to die, atleast if your project is at all large or popular. This causes variousproblems, the root cause of all of which can be summarized as that yourbug tracker is lying to people about the true status of nominally activebug reports.

So here is a modest proposal (somewhat in the Swiftian sense) forhow to fix your bug tracker. Simply introduce and automate the followingpolicies:

• close or expire bugs that have received no action in N months

I wound up watching SYD because Author did and liked it .I liked it a fair bit; it was not deep, but the jokes reliably made mesmile and even laugh, and they were (mostly) a style of humour that Ienjoy.

As characters themselves note in episode 3, the humour generally reallydoes need the straight man (usually Takatoshi, although Hagimurasometimes fills this role). I'm not going to try to figure out just why,but without the straight man many of the episode