Its internal MSFT humor from the 90s. RAID is the bug database in use at the time.
Triage was a harrowing time at the end of a 3 year release cycle where you make agonizing decisions about which bugs you will NOT fix. Always sad when its your baby that's going to be shipping with a wart, however a bug fix usually introduces an average of 0.25 new bugs so you have to stop somewhere.
If you never worked on traditional shrink wrapped software you may not get a feel for the agony that was triage. I still my remember my first WF (won't fix) bug, which is still there to this day. The worst part about it was you usually already had a fix in hand.
These meetings could get tense at times. Yelling and angry exits weren't uncommon.
One thing to note is that RAID here is probably referring to Microsoft's internal bug-tracking tool, not to an array of hard disks. That caused me some confusion the first time I read it.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 28.6 ms ] threadTriage was a harrowing time at the end of a 3 year release cycle where you make agonizing decisions about which bugs you will NOT fix. Always sad when its your baby that's going to be shipping with a wart, however a bug fix usually introduces an average of 0.25 new bugs so you have to stop somewhere.
If you never worked on traditional shrink wrapped software you may not get a feel for the agony that was triage. I still my remember my first WF (won't fix) bug, which is still there to this day. The worst part about it was you usually already had a fix in hand.
These meetings could get tense at times. Yelling and angry exits weren't uncommon.