Today's total pile of horse dookie is courtesy frequent-flyer #ESPhome. The latest release completely broke #BLE (and by extension, my #bigear)
Weirdly, #homeassistant can still "see" the tags, with it's broken distance calculation (weighted average?) and useless "source" field.
I'd file a bug but I am not arguing with #stalebot again. (And even their humans are not great.)
To clarify a bit, the reason I don't argue with #stalebot more than once is simple: Filing a good bug report is hard work. (I'm not referring to feature requests, although those can be hard work too.)
A project that uses #stalebot invariably accumulates tons of valid but closed bugs. A few of them will get accidentally fixed, but most remain real and get lost. (A closed bug looks fixed, so users tend to open a new one.) This feeds the "need" for stalebot because "omg too many bugs!" even though they are just noise generated by stalebot to begin with.
Back to #esphome: Why should I spend at least 30 mins searching their junk pile, plus at least an hour of gathering logs, experimenting, etc?
The humans involved will never look at it, and eventually their robotic receptionist will tell me to go away. I refuse to put more effort into this than they do.
#esphome #github #stalebot #homeassistant #bugs #bugreports #snr #qa
