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this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Should ... Should we tell OP that nobody understands all of any moderately large codebase, especially the sub-dependencies ... or that even the thousands of developers who wrote most of that code don't understand how their own code works anymore?
I could read the same book every year and I still won't remember most of the minor events on my deathbed. Doesn't mean I won't remember the key components that make up the story — coding is like that, except the minor events and key components can be rewritten or removed by someone else whenever you go to read them next.
The bugs I have fixed that were written by that idiot "me from a few weeks/months/years ago"...
several times I have searched for a problem and found my own stackoverflow question with no replies.
The worst thing is when it happens in this way and you can't remember even though it was your own question https://xkcd.com/979/
That guy sounds like the dude that "works" at my house too.
It's a web of trust. If the package maintainer is doing due diligence they should at least be aware how the upstream community runs. If it's a one person passion project then it's probably possible to give the changelog and diffstata once over because things don't change that fast. Otherwise they are relying on the upstream not shipping broken stuff.