14 November 2009 - World 0.1

There are more problems in the world than we have time to fix—in other words, the bug-tracker is overbooked. Simple heuristics can help us prioritize. Bugs that have not recurred for a long time should be closed as Cannot Reproduce; so much for nuclear war and global climate change. Bugs that we don’t have the resources to solve are Won’t Fix; that covers poverty and illiteracy. Bugs that we don’t understand at all, like crime, have to be scheduled for future versions. There, don’t things look much brighter? We should be ready to release beta version World 0.1 any decade now.