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    1 year ago

    Software developers who never have, and never will have to, use the software for real.

    Yes. The customer doesn’t necessarily know what’s possible or know how to articulate what features they want. I spent one week in a position where I was using my own software for production and immediately made several simple enhancements once I had hands on experience with the expected business process.

    Every programmer should go through an exercise like this at least once in a while.











  • If the size of the PR is a concern, maybe the maintainers will allow a staged approach. Create an Issue describing the feature and indicate step by step how you would implement. Then break the work into multiple pull requests.

    If necessary, you could introduce a toggle that’s switched off by default until the feature is fully implemented.