There’s a team who chose to set-up a generated report every time a code build was triggered. This report will show the usual static analysis checks like Code Coverage, “Code Smells”, bugs etc. It was encouraged that other teams should set this up too; so we were told to contact Rory who was leading this initiative.
I took responsibility for setting this up for my team, so I contacted Rory who sent me a link and said “just follow the instructions”.
I look at the instructions and they seemed to be for setting up a new instance of a Report server, rather than making your build process utilise the existing Report server. Common sense told me he had sent me the wrong link. I asked him again.
He reiterates: “It’s really easy, just follow the instructions”.
I felt Rory was messing me about, so I asked another colleague who was also setting it up for his team. He told me that with Rory’s link, there was only one link within that page which showed you some sample configuration. Every other step listed wasn’t relevant. Yup, Rory was messing me about.
Once set up, you then get a “permission denied” because Rory needs to give your team explicit permissions to contact the Report server. Of course, even though I told him I was setting it up at the start of the day, he hasn’t bothered adding me to the authorized users. Instead, he then wants me to send a request on his Slack channel before he will grant me access.
The thing is, several other teams also needed to set it up, and they went through a similar process of being messed about.
Why didn’t he write some custom instructions? Most of the configuration could just be copied from one team to another.
Also, he always waited until teams were stating they were getting the “permission denied” before granting them access. Why couldn’t he just add them when they initially requested the instructions?
Absolutely infuriating.
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