Re:You only get 1,000 lines of code a week
by bad_user on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:43PM
(#8620418)
IMHO, the exposed problem is exactly what's wrong in many development teams. What should happen is this:
1. somebody is feeling too much pain because of the shitty build system, therefore ...
2. that somebody simply setups an alternative and then shows everybody else how great it is compared to the current build system
If this doesn't happen, then the team is fundamentally broken, either because the team has only rookies in it (and rookies tend to be masochists that can take pain) or because the developers simply stopped carrying about the project, for some reason or another (which might be legitimate) and just do the minimal amount of work to cash in their paycheck. If this happens and the build system doesn't get fixed by somebody, then the main problem is not a shitty build system, but a broken team.
The good news is that you don't need an architect label to fix a broken build system, or certifications or other such bullshit. You just have to care enough and invest some effort in fixing it, with the realization that nobody is going to do that for you. Incidentally that's how you get better - sure you might make mistakes along the way, but people that change things are the people that get really good at it.
1. somebody is feeling too much pain because of the shitty build system, therefore ...
2. that somebody simply setups an alternative and then shows everybody else how great it is compared to the current build system
If this doesn't happen, then the team is fundamentally broken, either because the team has only rookies in it (and rookies tend to be masochists that can take pain) or because the developers simply stopped carrying about the project, for some reason or another (which might be legitimate) and just do the minimal amount of work to cash in their paycheck. If this happens and the build system doesn't get fixed by somebody, then the main problem is not a shitty build system, but a broken team.
The good news is that you don't need an architect label to fix a broken build system, or certifications or other such bullshit. You just have to care enough and invest some effort in fixing it, with the realization that nobody is going to do that for you. Incidentally that's how you get better - sure you might make mistakes along the way, but people that change things are the people that get really good at it.