RE: Engineering specs: The way it spozed to be?

["Robotti, Anne \(Carlin\)" <ARobotti -at- CarlinGroup -dot- com>]

> It is *never* OK to make an engineering change without 
> writing down in an internal document what's been done.

But don't they mostly note the changes in the code anyway? A lot of
developers I've worked with would laugh if you suggested that they
should comment the code *and* update some kind of separate document. I
always considered myself pretty lucky that the comments were so good -
maybe my standards aren't high enough.

> 
> Or as I like to put it: "You look pretty busy. Could I take a 
> few notes on that, just so I can keep track of these improvements?"

I am *so* totally stealing that and using it!

Anne


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