Not a good advice. I have been at Op's shoes, and I inherited a project that was a clusterf, and did a full re-write. It was a lot of work (more than anticipa

Not a good advice. I have been at Op's shoes, and I inherited a project that was a clusterf, and did a full re-write. It was a lot of work (more than anticipated), but eventually it was very successful. The original code was just not salvageable. (It was quickly done as a fast hack, and it would break left and right, causing outages). Just make sure the OP needs to understand what the OG system is trying to do, and what it will take to re-write it to something sane. Don't start it, before understanding all the caveats of the system/project you are trying to re-write.