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wypaliz
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Working with a new team and I don't understand how this is normal or ok.

Me: Does anyone need help troubleshooting the broken build or can I revert this change that broke it so I can push my change out?

Dev: Stop build shaming me, I wouldn't leave the build in a failing state.

Me: Well, I wasn't sure how long to wait, before asking.... it's been broken for 4 hours.

Dev: It's the development environment, you should expect development to be going on.

Me: Yes and appears that this project architecture doesn't support any sort of isolation for development. So nobody can deploy anything except through the development branch.

Dev: That's what development is for IMO, so it doesn't bother me.

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    Well, the dev is childish. He/she immediately felt attacked when you stated facts and only referenced things (the commit, the failing build) instead of people. And the excuses make it clear the dev knew he/she did something wrong.
    Is this normal or ok? Yes, it's somewhat prevalent in the industry. No, it's not okay.
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    @kescherRant yeah good point, I usually point feature branches to Dev env... But even that won't help at this point because of how jacked the architecture is. Or, the lack of an architecture plan might be the better explanation.
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    @VaderNT to be fair, I've been pointing out these types of things for the past two days and they are all tired of me. I called them out yesterday for making changes directly in the release branch and then merging them back down into develop. Among other things.
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    Normal or not, it's wrong.
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    Has that dev ever heard of git flow?
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    @wypaliz Of course they are. It took me way too long to understand one central thing about people:
    People never do anything wrong. From their point of view, that is, because otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.

    People react differently to being shown they're wrong. Some are thankful for the opportunity to improve themselves. Others get annoyed or, like that dev, throw a hissy fit.
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    @kescherRant I like your attitude. Keep being awesome!
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