Let the Bug Reporter Have the Last Word

Someone has submitted a bug report to your repository.You fix the bug.You close the bug report.Stop.This is wrong.You shouldn���t close it.Instead, you should ask the reporter to review your fix.Then, maybe, they will close the ticket.If they don���t, you make another fix, until they do.

[image error]Analyze This (1999) by Harold Ramis

According to Joel Spolsky, ``the only person who can close a bug is the person who opened it in the first place.������But, why?Why shouldn���t you close it, when...