Re:Ask HN: Mass department walkout
by nitwit005 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:37AM
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That is how I got my first job. I was at the tail end of hiring entirely new people.
It clearly did a lot of good. The only documentation left by the original team was a bug database where things were resolved with descriptions like "fixed", and no way to trace what files were modified. Not sure why they bothered.
In retrospect, I should have started up some technical documentation effort after joining. At the time, I wasn't exposed to that idea, and I checked in a dozen or so "WhatIsThis.txt" files into source control to explain what some things were after we figured it out.
It clearly did a lot of good. The only documentation left by the original team was a bug database where things were resolved with descriptions like "fixed", and no way to trace what files were modified. Not sure why they bothered.
In retrospect, I should have started up some technical documentation effort after joining. At the time, I wasn't exposed to that idea, and I checked in a dozen or so "WhatIsThis.txt" files into source control to explain what some things were after we figured it out.