Wisdom

Nobody commits to six months of code until the pitfalls are mapped

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nobody wants to commit to it. Until you until you have all of the pitfalls worked out ahead of time because you don't want to get three months into it

Episode 44: separating the nodes from the news. I wish I could say that this new studio was (approx., from transcript intro) 01:43:35 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Asked why ActivityPub comments weren't moving, Dave says nothing like it existed, so it meant maybe six months of from-scratch code. Nobody wants to commit until the pitfalls are worked out, because no one wants to discover a dead end three months in.