Or here's an even better solution: ask the developers for a solution, and then ask them how long it will take and why. Then go to your supervisor (or stakehold

Or here's an even better solution: ask the developers for a solution, and then ask them how long it will take and why. Then go to your supervisor (or stakeholder or whoever) and tell them your engineers said it's going to take this long because of technical reason X, Y, and Z.