> If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really matter who wrote it?
I think that depending on the project and the kind of file, it does make a difference. One of the primary problems our team faced when working on a large brownfield enterprise project spanning several (distributed) teams was precisely that a lot of time new features would come up that required domain and technical knowledge about stuff written a long time ago. It was pretty common to find out that those file's authors were no long in the company so it was pretty painful to extend and implement features related to those areas of code. I'd say it was in at least some cases almost as costly as rewriting those portions from scratch. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Gary Verhaegen <gary.verhae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guilherme, > > I am not a Clojure developer (I only use it), so maybe I'm speaking > out of line. I would first like to thank you for the initiative; as an > industry, I believe we direly need more quantitative, scientific > studies of our practices, so I'm really happy to see this. > > There is of course a lot of social dynamics that cannot be captured > from code commits alone. For example, if Rich was to step down (for > whatever reason), I would be much more worried about the direction of > the project than about the technical skills required to understand and > grow the code base: to my somewhat external eyes, Rich's role of > refusing contributions and setting a clear direction for the language > is at least as important as any code he writes himself. I love Clojure > because it's clear, from usage, that there is a single, strong, > unified vision behind it. I'm not saying nobody shares Rich's > aesthetics, but at the very least it would take time for any > replacement to earn the social authority that Rich has (it is, after > all, his language). > > As for the truck factor computation, have you considered weighing the > relative importance of different files in a project? Something like > the inverse of churn, or taking into account the last modification > date? If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really > matter who wrote it? Even the author will probably need to read it > very carefully should there ever be a need to change it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
