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That's why I'm a proponent of code ownership. We should be coding to each others interfaces instead of constantly poking around in the same shared codebase. It
by lacampbell 10y ago
That's why I'm a proponent of code ownership. We should be coding to each others interfaces instead of constantly poking around in the same shared codebase. It just leads to pointless re-writes and low quality - a tragedy of the commons.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/devopsmsft/code-ownership-quality https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/devopsmsft/code-...
- jiaweihli 10y agoUnfortunately sole code ownership increases the bus factor.
- lacampbell 10y agoWhy? The code is still there even when a person leaves.
- enqk 10y agoCode is really hard to work with without the theory that surrounds it, and is alive in the people who worked on it. Peter Naur - Programming As Theory Building http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
- lacampbell 10y agoLegacy shitcode is legacy shitcode. If it's owned by someone at least we can push for a sane interface, which is better than the abandoned communal messes I encounter in the real world.
- enqk 10y ago?