If I do end up as faculty briefly in my life, I am sure as hell trying to run my lab and projects in a different way than I have experienced. Maybe I have too much pride in my work or expectations that research projects are actually useable for other people, but such is my plight.
I had a meeting yesterday where I was simultaneously told to write about all the features I have added to this project while being told that the "stable release" will be missing these features that I am being told to play up. This is because they "have not been tested enough in the last month". Idk fam, whose fault is that. The thing that I am still mad about the most is that not only are these features I added not going to be in this supposedly stable release, my fixes to get any of the stuff I worked on actually functional won't be either. Just, what.
If you want to show off contributions and cool features, they uh, need to be in there.
Well if this means I am less complicit in training cop robots then I'll take it. But from a project management standpoint, there has been none. I have constantly felt like shit working on this because I am the only person who cares about these features and literally only one other person even looks at the code base.
HCI people should not be running software development projects based on mine and my colleagues' experiences