[clug] [OT] 'Technical Debt' in Infrastructure, now entering mainstream media

[Kim Holburn]

> On 2019/Nov/07, at 10:04 pm, Paul Wayper via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> But we shouldn't pretend that they're not there.  To be honest, many of these
> technical debt problems are - in my experience - caused by inexperienced or
> lazy programmers just slapping something together, trying random things until
> they work, or putting in hacks to quickly solve a problem rather than attempt
> the 'right' solution.  In all of those situations, the programmers could have
> simply done it the 'right' way to begin with; they simply didn't know or
> didn't care about the long term pain brought about by their short term gain.


I'd say technical debt is usually caused by the aims and requirements of the project changing, often drastically and the managers not allowing time or resources to the programmers to go back and fix things that were originally written for a completely different purpose.

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