Google leaves TODO message at the top of basic HTML homepage
If you visit the basic HTML version of google.com right now (turn off JavaScript, search for something, return home), there's a TODO at the top of the page:
> // TODO(b/219794336): Hide keyboard when opening from Dragonglass homepage
Here's a screenshot: https://severnaya.net/google.png
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https://9to5google.com/2018/12/28/fuchsia-friday-dragonglass...
(I worked on the home hub display assistant devices which were one of the things that ran a 'dragonglass')
Strictly speaking I guess code names are "secret", but this one is pretty old already.
It gets (ab)used to store tons of semi structured data with a pretty good siloing and acl capability (including allowing Google 3rd party partners to work on issues). This data includes bugs but also tasks, workflows, approval processes etc. Buganizer is very api-first so many different tool frontends use it as their backend.
Generally every huge leap in bug numbers was associated with buganizer assimilating another tracker's bug database (from acquisitions and similar). For what it's worth no issue tracking system I am aware of has avoided buganizers huge gravity well. I expect this trend to continue.
1: https://issuetracker.google.com
Even some small, well managed, projects will develop hundreds upon hundreds of issues in their trackers. Can't imagine how you'd deal with that at such a massive scale.
Who here hasn't been in a standup where a task was created against a CL that only had a title "FIX" (with the intention of filling it out later)
Complex Project Management in other sectors (construction) is starting to see life in this regard. Unfortunately much of the digital transformation of PM to date has focused on capture and reporting. Capture is capture but the problem with reporting is that nobody read the reports before and aren't going to read them now they are in dashboard with endless possibilities to slice and dice.
Automating insight is next but insight is difficult to draw when you have tens to hundreds of people building an often unreliable, usually bespoke, and piecemeal semantic model over time; quality and context is scattershot and the datasets not large enough on their own and not comparable to others.
[1] e.g. Clippy but AI that gets better as teams provide feedback: Does this issue relate to x or y? Is this issue A more important than this issue B? Was this issue A fixed by this PR B?
*Or were a little while ago when Abseil was last updated.