3 ms·
If I was in that position and had nothing else to do, why not leisurely refactor and clean up the code in a piecemeal fashion?
by ido 5y ago
If I was in that position and had nothing else to do, why not leisurely refactor and clean up the code in a piecemeal fashion?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agorisk vs reward
- chronogram 5y agoI could really only see that if your job title is "IE11 maintainer" and for the next 10 years you clock in, drink coffee and chat while waiting for a CVE to come in to fix. But you'd still rather not touch anything because there's really only risk and no reward to it. Realistically it'll just be part of a far larger security team that fixes bugs in a large number of software preferably prioritising bugs based on severity where there's always going to be something better to do than mess with old codebases.