Questions tagged [maintenance]
The activities that occur after deployment of a software system. This includes making modifications to released systems, training, operating, and transitioning to support organizations.
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Best thing to do by private developers in case of impending death or plans to cease development on a personal private project
Suppose I have a personal private code project. What should the developer do with the code in case of impending death or plans to cease development on their personal private project. Suppose, they do ...
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Can we use Git as an additional tool to better estimate maintenance effort?
I'm working with a codebase that is almost 4y old, just a little under 2000 source files and roughly 100 developers have committed to it. One of our third-party dependencies is not actively maintained ...
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using git, bringing old tagged releases up to date
I have a git repository with a long history. Releases were tagged along the master branch over time. If a user wants to go back and check out an old tagged release, they do not have the advantage of ...
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How to prioritize maintenance work and tech tebt with something like User Pain?
User Pain is an established concept to prioritize bugs in a consistent way that is stable over time by calculating a single score based on a small number of criteria. https://lostgarden.home.blog/...
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Change Requests Billing
I have a website developed for my client, and he's currently on an annual maintenance billing for the same post development pushed to production, that he'd paid me for the development charges ...
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How to maintain a project documentation?
How is it done in practice to maintain a project documentation but not the documentation to the users but the doc for the maintainers. For example, is it customary to just look at the files and ...
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How to review sql changes more effectively? [duplicate]
From my experience, sql code changes almost always tend to be NOT incremental: someone creates a new stored procedure, or modifies an entire embedded sql query for optimization purposes, or creates a ...
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How should support/bugfixes work in a larger organisation?
We have a team of about 40 engineers who work on a large SaaS platform. As with any organisation, we have an enormous backlog of things we want to deliver from our roadmap. But of course, we also have ...
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