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Code Hoarding: Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs

Published: 21 December 2015 Publication History

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Dear KV, Why are so many useful features of open-source projects hidden under obscure configuration options that mean they’ll get little or no use? Is this just typically poor documentation and promotion, or is there something that makes these developers hide their code? It’s not as if the code seems broken. When I turned these features on in some recent code I came across, the system remained stable under test and in production. I feel that code should either be used or removed from the system. If the code is in a source-code repository, then it’s not really lost, but it’s also not cluttering the rest of the system. Use It or Lose It

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Queue  Volume 13, Issue 9
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November-December 2015
156 pages
ISSN:1542-7730
EISSN:1542-7749
DOI:10.1145/2857274
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Published: 21 December 2015
Published in QUEUE Volume 13, Issue 9

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