Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches Atlassian has warned users of its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, and Jira products that a pair of critical-rated flaws threaten their security. The company's July security advisories detail "Servlet Filter dispatcher vulnerabilities." One of the flaws – CVE-2022-26136 – is described as an arbitrary Servlet …
I would prefer : get your finger out and do the updates, then you can consider it done.
Management will wait until tomorrow to have its precious Jira timesheets if it means quashing some bugs that have been present since years. And of course they are present since years, because the bug was created in a piece of code that Atlassian has been re-using ever since.
Logical.
Where did this weird use of "backlog" to mean "issue tracker" or "request list" come from?
It was used by someone in a meeting at work recently, and confused many of the people attending, who hadn't heard this usage before. It seems to be the sort of strange mangled redefinition used by the sort of people who use abominations like "reach out" «vomits»… (And it was that sort of meeting, rather heavy on the whalesong, a bit lightweight on real work (rather than busywork) being done…)
A backlog is what results when a metaphorical cog falls out of the machinery, and everything goes horribly wrong and has to catch up, not an expected normal work process, surely?
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