> > I would prefer to have a way to measure technical debt and how it is > changing. >
I think the entire software industry would prefer to have that, but as far as I know, that type of measurement does not exist. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:23 PM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:16 PM Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Derk-Jan Hartman < > > d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Last year has seen a lot of focus on Technical Debt. WMF also has a > core > > > platform team now, which finally allows a more sustainable chipping > away > > at > > > some of the technical debt. > > > > > > Yeah. Having tech debt is never great but what gets people concerned is > > when it just grows and grows, and management dismisses concerns because > it > > is always more important to have the next feature out quickly. We used to > > have a bit of that problem, but IMO there have been lots of positive > > changes in the last two years or so, and there is now a credible > > organization-wide effort now to get debt under control (mainly looking at > > the Platform Evolution program here). Having the core platform team also > > helped a lot, and in my impression some other teams that had in the past > > focused on fast feature iteration have also been given more space to do > > things right. > > > > Thanks very much for the explanations regarding that point. > > One of my continuing concerns is that, as far as I know, no one has a way > of reliably quantifying the scale of the technical debt or measuring how it > is changing over time. It sounds like the internal view in WMF is that the > situation is improving, which is good to hear. However, I would prefer to > have a way to measure technical debt and how it is changing. If that > information is available then I think that making decisions about > resources, priorities, etc. will involve less guesswork. I think that this > proposal could align with WMF's work on code health.(See > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health). > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
