843254 - [research] no more pto for r1cky

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P1)

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[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

We joke about how every time r1cky goes on PTO, everything catches on fire. But it's not really a joke--it's true.

I think we should write a script that spiders the PTO system and rejects all future PTO requests.

Comment 1

[Jen Fong-Adwent [:ednapiranha]]

Who's Ricky?

Comment 2

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

This is going to mean a lot of extra dev time. Estimating at 13 points.

Comment 3

[tofumatt [:tofumatt]]

Would it be possible to change Ricky's position to "contractor"? Otherwise, his position as a full-time employee may give him serious HR leverage. That might need to be a separate blocker bug.

Comment 4

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

I fear if we make him a contractor that he'll go somewhere else. Maybe instead we could trick him into indentured servitude? Or maybe someone should swab his cheek accidentally at the next team meeting and we could clone him several times. It could be like that movie Moon--we wouldn't tell the clone he was a clone.

Comment 5

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Clearly this one needs more research, and we should get to it very, very, very soon.

Comment 6

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

I did some poking around and I think cloning is a non-trivial project with the current codebase. Maybe it'd be easier to just pass him off to Sheeri to set up replication to a slave?

cc:ing Sheeri for thoughts.

Comment 7

[Sheeri Cabral [:sheeri]]

Frankly, this is better done in the code layer - just like you have to have a valid date to submit PTO, we should write in that if you are r1cky, you can't submit PTO more than 0 hours per day.

Deleting the records once they're already in is a bad idea - there's a record in the logs of r1cky actually requesting time off. Best to make sure it never makes it to the database, and the logs.

Comment 8

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

I haven't been able to reproduce. Can you provide detailed steps?

Comment 9

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

I think we need to move this to the backlog to discuss further.

Comment 10

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Q1 is in the past. Moving to the future.

Comment 11

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Making this one 1000pts because it's hard. We'll have to create a special sprint or maybe a ultramarathon for it.

Comment 12

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

Just create a special sprint with all the bugs that have ever and will ever be fixed. And assign r1cky to it. 

Since the lifespan of all projects ever created and ever being created is close to infinity, I'd rather re-measure the points to being close to infinity. Unfortunately, my charset doesn't allow infinity signs here.

Comment 13

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Hoping this goes unnoticed during the great triage of 2014.

Comment 14

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

I saw that!

Comment 15

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

We'll be verifying this the next two weeks.