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How long do you support the application? I believe that if you support it long enough, it's your application now, so no one else is to blame. How long is long
by deepsun 8y ago
How long do you support the application?
I believe that if you support it long enough, it's your application now, so no one else is to blame. How long is long enough? I'd say 1k-2k of lines of code per month of supporting it should be pretty reasonable. So if you supported a project of 10k lines for a year -- it's yours now, stop blaming original authors.
Good engineer would start improving it little-by-little, or convince manager that they need to spend some time on refactoring some piece of it. That differentiates a coder from an engineer.
- hnthroaway1926 8y agoYou are assuming that they have access to the original source code and an ability to edit that source as well, which may not be the case. If it were me and I didn't have the original source I would decompile it out of curiosity.
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- 4thaccount 8y agoBingo....this one I do not have the source for. It is a vendor app. Sadly, I could rewrite everything it does in a fraction of the code and it would be more maintainable and cheaper, but it would never be approved.