Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase
by yonaguska on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:45AM
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I've got to disagree. not every contributor is making the code base better. I'm in a situation where we are such a small team that there really is no gatekeeper, and we only require one approve per pr...and I've come back from vacation to some monstrosities that I have to look at with no time to fix.
After a pairing session with a a fellow developer, where I took the extra effort to refactor something along the way, probably an addition 15 minutes of effort...she quipped- no wonder it takes you so long to finish your stories sometimes.
I mean, that's not why- I'm ADHD, so my lack of productivity sometimes is invariably due to a day where I forgot my meds or didn't get a full nights rest.
All th bad codebase I've seen were a result of fossils who are still with the company gatekeeping anyone from fixing their code.
A few years ago, I had one architect stubbornly refuse to use source control, rejected all PRs that didn't use his homegrown buggy C++ libs for strings, refused to let anyone do the http server bits unless they used his C++ server and so on.
If there isn't a gatekeeper, you wouldn't have the bad codebase in the first place.