Consolation Prize?

[whilefoo]

First, why?

Say someone assigns a job to themselves and carries out all of or some of the work, let's say it's an old issue and it's no longer relevant or required and just hasn't been removed/updated yet. With a very busy team and a lot of distance to cover it's possible for these scenarios to arise especially (as the codebase repeats), as things continue to grow.

What happens then?

I propose a consolation prize of sorts, what exactly that would be is definitely beyond my current understanding of things and above my paygrade to decide as well obviously.

The assignee who committed the work but through no fault of their own has had to stop due to the issue being body-bagged, should receive either a percentage of the allocated rewards or have some form of tracking in place so that if it happens on multiple occasions it can be said 'well that's n hours of work' or 'n% of the spec achieved' so you can claim 20 bucks or something along those lines.

An alternative Solution

Sign-post any new /start command with a disclaimer not to begin the work until someone has confirmed that it is still relevant and should be executed. (If this already exists and I missed it then I think it should be made clearer on DevPool onboarding docs etc)

Disclaimer

I am by no means salty or have a bitter taste in my mouth that this happened to myself, I'm glad it did actually as it has given me my first issue to raise. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.