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by bradfordw 5599 days ago
You can look at this as more of a "philosophical" question. Is software ever really "done"? There will be much back and forth, I don't think this question is really answerable. If you need to hand it over to someone else; then yes. Once it matches the specs that they intended for it, then I would consider it done.

If you wish to continue making changes as you come up with them; that's perfectly fine, but remember the more that codebase changes, the higher the likelihood that something can (and will) go wrong.

It's a good question and this will certainly drum up a good discussion here, I look forward to seeing what everyone else says.

bw

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Yeah, it works and thus it's done. It's meet the specs, but it seems I can always find something more to add. It would add more complexity and the age old KISS method should come into play here.

I like the idea of thinking of this as a philosophical question. When asked like that. Is any of the code we write complete? Makes me ponder since I see open source projects go on for years =)