Re:Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217.524881?
by londons_explore on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:34AM
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A tiny feature like this can be added by a single engineer in a few hours/days. They will require 1 or 2 other team mates to code review.
Adding public documentation of that feature will require translation into all supported languages, which will incur a cost, and sign off of those costs will require approval from a whole slew of higher up and other-team people. It will probably involve processes and systems the engineer has never used before. Translations are often batched (so that a single human does all the translations to avoid inconsistency of terminology), so it might be months till the next batch is done. The copy will need to be reviewed and rewritten by various technical writers.
Suddenly the 'spend a few hours adding a tiny little feature' becomes a week or two...
Adding public documentation of that feature will require translation into all supported languages, which will incur a cost, and sign off of those costs will require approval from a whole slew of higher up and other-team people. It will probably involve processes and systems the engineer has never used before. Translations are often batched (so that a single human does all the translations to avoid inconsistency of terminology), so it might be months till the next batch is done. The copy will need to be reviewed and rewritten by various technical writers.
Suddenly the 'spend a few hours adding a tiny little feature' becomes a week or two...