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Google leaves TODO message at the top of basic HTML homepage
62 points by buzzert on Feb 23, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 30 comments
If you visit the basic HTML version of google.com right now (turn off JavaScript, search for something, return home), there's a TODO at the top of the page:

> // TODO(b/219794336): Hide keyboard when opening from Dragonglass homepage

Here's a screenshot: https://severnaya.net/google.png



Aside from being a Game of Thrones reference, "Dragonglass" appears to be a code name for a smart display device, or for smart display functionality.

https://9to5google.com/2018/12/28/fuchsia-friday-dragonglass...


ooh I was hoping it would be a minor leak about something like that :-D


Not much of a leak; it's a codename from 4 or so years ago now. Not sure if it still applies for the more recent versions of this UI, which were rewritten.

(I worked on the home hub display assistant devices which were one of the things that ran a 'dragonglass')

Strictly speaking I guess code names are "secret", but this one is pretty old already.


Not my code but I sent out a fix.


Nice!


The system works!


I wonder how much money they lost just for that comment, at that scale every but counts


That epoch of Google died near on a decade ago now


Thats if its real and its not a phishing exercise to identify the ip address of posters for intelligence gathering purposes. If scan hacker news every few seconds from a variety of different IP addresses, see who is logged on and posting and then see who clicks the honeypot. Simplez!


.…it’s google.com. I’m pretty sure some smart devices ping that to check internet connectivity


No the website which highlighted an anomaly. I could spot something up with a big entity, knock out a website highlighting that when all the while I'm looking to identify the user.


I can’t repro on iOS, but a google for that specific TODO shows it indexed at google.at and google.co.ve, as well as a variety of other domains with google in the name… unclear which if any are Google owned but the few I tried don’t redirect, that’s a bit surprising.


Who.is search shown that at least google.co.ve is owned by Google

https://who.is/whois/google.co.ve


It's a bit alarming that bug numbers at Google are now in the hundreds of thousands.


The system's external name is IssueTracker[1]. Internally it's name is buganizer. Buganizer has been around forever (or it already had a ton of bugs logged when I started in 08).

It gets (ab)used to store tons of semi structured data with a pretty good siloing and acl capability (including allowing Google 3rd party partners to work on issues). This data includes bugs but also tasks, workflows, approval processes etc. Buganizer is very api-first so many different tool frontends use it as their backend.

Generally every huge leap in bug numbers was associated with buganizer assimilating another tracker's bug database (from acquisitions and similar). For what it's worth no issue tracking system I am aware of has avoided buganizers huge gravity well. I expect this trend to continue.

1: https://issuetracker.google.com


> For what it's worth no issue tracking system I am aware of has avoided buganizers huge gravity well

Even some small, well managed, projects will develop hundreds upon hundreds of issues in their trackers. Can't imagine how you'd deal with that at such a massive scale.


AI assisted prompts to users to provide more structured context[1], de-duplicate, cluster, prioritise. All things people _should_ be doing but can't be bothered to or aren't incentivised to.

Who here hasn't been in a standup where a task was created against a CL that only had a title "FIX" (with the intention of filling it out later)

Complex Project Management in other sectors (construction) is starting to see life in this regard. Unfortunately much of the digital transformation of PM to date has focused on capture and reporting. Capture is capture but the problem with reporting is that nobody read the reports before and aren't going to read them now they are in dashboard with endless possibilities to slice and dice.

Automating insight is next but insight is difficult to draw when you have tens to hundreds of people building an often unreliable, usually bespoke, and piecemeal semantic model over time; quality and context is scattershot and the datasets not large enough on their own and not comparable to others.

[1] e.g. Clippy but AI that gets better as teams provide feedback: Does this issue relate to x or y? Is this issue A more important than this issue B? Was this issue A fixed by this PR B?


I would be alarmed if a company the size of Google with as many complicated projects and as many different developers didn't have a bunch of low level issues like this hanging around!


Bug is used very broadly, any issue/task is a bug, some of which are of type "Bug".


That's true. All of my personal projects have bug numbers only in the single digits. Just more evidence that I am better than all of Google.


Imagine the sound in the datacenter with JIRA spinning to life on 219 million bugs.


Some say they never commissioned it properly and it’s still using the demo XML file as the database.


Piper revisions are at 429321455*, so that's about 1 issue per CL. Sounds about right in fact.

*Or were a little while ago when Abseil was last updated.


It's my understanding that over time, bugs outnumber lines of code. Google has millions, maybe billions? of lines of code.


I wish it was b/7 or something like that, present since 1999


Whoever is assigning these code names to products loves GoT


who or what is Dragonglass?


The material used to kill white walkers.


Obsidian.


Scratch my previous - I see it.




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