On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 3:32 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pine, > please see the exact (quite precise) definition of > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technical_debt > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt > https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html > I.e. Technical debt is Not at all equivalent to "bugs". The topic is a > tangential one. Software can work perfectly fine for end-users even if it > has a lot of "technical debt", it is just a pain for developers to change > anything in it or connected to it because the code has complex issues (it's > a mess, or imperfectly architected at a higher-level, or "icky", or other > factors). It is not possible to measure, and is somewhat subjective in > nature. > Thanks for correcting me regarding the definition. That helps. (One of these days I will probably write something that will reveal a deep ignorance of a Wikimedia topic, and I'm sure that I will hear about it. Making errors is one way to learn, although it is a way that I often make an effort to avoid.) > Overall this thread is going in circles, and I recommend dropping it here. > There are several good suggestions above if anyone wants to put effort into > actual solutions. > It sounds like we have different perspectives. However, get the impression that people are getting tired of the this topic, so I'll move on. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
