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And how do you feel when the person in front of you in the 10 items or less line at the grocery store has 12 cans of peaches?
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I don't care since whether it is 10 items or 12 items, it is not a material breach of the rules.

FWIW, the analogy really does not work. Let me show you why:


Question, how many items did the person buy?

One one hand, I could argue that that they only bought 1 item - peaches. I certainly could argue that only 1 product was purchased - the peaches.

On the other hand, you could say that 12 things were purchased, all sharing the common characteristic of being the same thing.

Don't rack your head on this as there is neither a right or wrong answer to this. Each side can be argued. For these purposes, the general concensus however would be that 12 items were purchased.

Now, going back to the bug sample, the same person asking for the bug fix 10 times? How does that correlate to the grocery example? IMO, it does not. And here is why?


What happens when you are the first to report a bug or ER? You get the cookie? Subsequent requests are met with the standard "we have had that request/bug report already..." So, as far as the scoreboard is concerned, the bug was reported 1 time. And, from a pragmatic standpoint, if the same person keeps asking, a reasonable person will chock it up to the person being a pain in the ass. Now, if 100 different people ask for the same thing, that is another story...