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by jancsika 1683 days ago
"This fence is so long and sprawling that even thinking about painting it negatively affects my health. But I bet you could knock it out in under an hour," Tom said to the other children.

Later that afternoon, Aunt Polly arrived home to an unpainted fence.

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I don't think it's a stretch to say that the primary maintainer, the person who wrote the (extremely slapdash) build scripts and knows exactly why it's copying folders during the build process, is going to get the changes done faster than someone who is not knowledgeable with the tools and codebase? Writing code isn't painting fences, it's like asking me to replace a set of levers on an industrial piping system, except at least then the specifications of the prior levers would be available and there would be documentation for the whole thing.