• rwhitisissle@lemy.lolEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I’ve written poorer documentation than this.

      “Here is a work around to fix [weird bug in production]:”

      “Edit: Disregard the above. It fixes [weird bug in production] but causes [bad thing] to happen.”

      “Edit 2: Apparently the first edit is wrong. It doesn’t cause [bad thing] to happen. Bad thing just happened to occur simultaneously the first time I did the workaround.”

      “Edit 3: [weird bug in production] has been fixed. This workaround is no longer needed.”

      “Edit 4: Turns out [weird bug in production] we fixed is what allowed our systems to communicate with one another. Had to rollback change. Work around is now considered ‘the fix’ going forward.”

      “Edit 5: Turns out it DOES cause [bad thing] to happen, but [bad thing happening] is a core component of our system’s design and also PAYROLL NEEDS IT TO FUNCTION?!”