[el_programmador]

If you were lucky enough to contact them that is! Attrition rate is such these days that many coders simply flee after a release or so, also depends on how old the code-base is. Git or other version control systems come quite handy, I agree.

[dranka]

Yes definitely. But only reading the code and looking at the history can sometimes be enough to build the picture when the same names repeatedly show up in troublesome code

[dranka]

..in my experience it can also lead to antagonistic thoughts about people who I have never met and only know through the code they wrote :)