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I’m passionate about the problem of software maintenance: - Can we solve this with some companies dedicated to maintaining simple code (1 probe, 2 charts for e
by eastbound 3y ago
I’m passionate about the problem of software maintenance:
- Can we solve this with some companies dedicated to maintaining simple code (1 probe, 2 charts for each IoT, or more if the IoT subscribed for more) multiplied by 10k different IoT objects over 30 years?
- How would upgrading all of them look like? Can we batch the upgrade of NPM’s package.json? Can we define a minimum toolset, say NPM+Next+React, for long-term support?
- How can we keep software engineers passionate for that software over dozens of years? Can the challenge of upgrading and migrating to newer frameworks and applying security upgrade be ever a trove of genius and a competiton of the best hacks?
For the moment, when it’s done, it’s all GitHub Actions. Released in 2018. Well, not a good start. Plus everyone has a different pile of … in their actions, it’s all custom code, nothing is standardized, and each new IoT requires a new guy writing new ones.
- Is this already done in some part of OSS (openWrt?) and how do they deal with the boredom of engineers?