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I'd watch a movie about that (media.piefed.zip)

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Microblog post: Once a year, for 12 hours (7a-7p), any Pull Request will be accepted without any review whatsoever. All tech debt is legal. Introducing: The Merge

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is there a robust test suite?

Merge, test, merge, test, patch, merge, test

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Only some of the new code does. Unfortunately, most of the code base is 10 years old written in the good ol’ Anarchy Driven Programming paradigm.

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[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago

The test suite takes 24 hours to run fully.

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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 7 months ago

If by test you mean wait for customers to yell at us, it's super robust

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