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Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by jimnotgym on Saturday September 29, 2018 @07:15AM (#18099790)
1) I think Github are a long way past prototyping... they just sold their rough sketch for $7.5b

2) A year and a half of how much effort?

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Re:Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 by pka on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:24AM (#18100506)
> A year and a half of how much effort?

> The project originally began with 1 full-time engineer and a small army of volunteers. We grew that team to 4 full-time engineers plus the volunteers.

They had four full-time people working on upgrading Rails at some point!

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