Technical debt - was Re: datetime seems to be broken WRT timezones (even when you add them)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 19:37:25 EST 2020


On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:32 AM Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/11/20 2:25 PM, Barry Scott wrote:
> > At Chris said moving to python3 will *reduce* your technical debt.
> > You are paying off the debt.
>
> While at the same time incurring new debt.

That's not an intrinsic part of the rewrite, and will only happen if
you do the job sloppily.

Perhaps you're completely misunderstanding the meaning of the term?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/technical-debt

ChrisA


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