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by simonw 1776 days ago
I think that's an excellent practice - not as a way of gaming the system, but for maintaining useful documentation about what happened and why.

A bug fix without an associated ticket is missing context: who spotted the bug? When? What were the steps to reproduce?

Even a ticket with no content is valuable - it gives me somewhere I can post additional comments and screenshots later, or link to other related tickets.

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And an area that QA should be aware of, during testing. and maybe to update automated tests.