Mentat is Great Dogfood
I owe a great deal of thanks to my customers for providing me with some of the worst tools for project management and bug tracking, ever.
We were going through a test run today and noting in any new bugs or issues that may have come up. I logged onto Mantis, and tried to open a bug on the first anomaly, and by the time I was about five fields into the “new bug” form the guys had already found 3 minor nits that I needed to capture.
I finally said “arrrrrghscrewit” and logged on to Mentat and jumped to the project I’d already set up for them. I just let them rattle off what they were finding and belted out new bug entries as they came.
Click, type a description, hit tab. Click, type a description, hit tab. As they went back in and characterized things more, I opened the HUD on the tasks and filled in more detailed information.
Tools like Mantis and Microsoft Project are great, in the sense that they inspired us to create Mentat so we wouldn’t have to deal with them anymore. I sure do not like having to work with them now that I have something better, but the joy of switching BACK to Mentat was fantastic.
Having to deal with your own software as an actual user is usually referred to in software as “eating your own dog food.” Man, that’s some GOOOOD stuff!
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