Yesterday, I sent an email to a group of developers explaining, for the 14,000,000th time[1], that I cannot sign off on their application[2] until they get some bugs fixed[3]. I then explained the error I was seeing.
An email discussion started regarding the creation of an IR[4] between the project lead on OUR side and a lady who is one of the Project Leads from the application. Eventually, their project lead sent an email that said:
I do not want to enter an IR until it is determined that it is broke! He may just be doing it wrong!
Our project lead replied with:
Daniel? "doing it wrong"? If he doesn't know how to do it, who does???
That makes me happy.
[1] They keep signing me off (saying I am ready) without my consent, approval, or even bothering to contact me. Many times, when this is questioned, they state something like, "Well… I have a conference call with Daniel yesterday, and we just figured he would be ready to go by the end of the week so we signed him off."
[2] The multi-million dollar application they have been pushing for the past six months and developing for well over three years
[3] Part of the system schedules reports that my applications rely on. The reports are supposed to come in every two hours, however, their system will not let me schedule a report reliably because it is complaining that date I am entering is in the future, when it clearly is not.
[4] An IR is an official bug report in their system, as opposed to just something someone is looking at.
