You made this? I made this. - readfromdisk
I spent a month planning and validating, and another month writing and integrating, then another few weeks making it programmatically impossible to screw up for even the most absentminded developer (everyone makes mistakes!). I replaced the old footguns with a vigilant early warning system, and plugged it all directly into the CI pipeline. Custom lint checks! Full automation!
Then I made myself highly available to any developers that needed assistance, doing whatever it takes to get things sorted. My attention moved on to other nasty problems, where I repeated this process.
Their repository? That would undo a lot of my work. It makes no sense. I peek through the collection of what this team “owns”:
And now I understand. They don’t want to own it in the sense of being responsible for, or accountable to it. To be highly available to fix issues. To be the backstop, no matter who’s fault those issues are.
They want to own it symbolically. They want to take the shiny object back to their display case, only to gesture at it when the constable comes by to see their papers — their proof of productivity.
