[gsf_emergency]

>The question is first of all whether we have written them down anywhere

The only hard thing in software: papers please (easily accessible documentation)

[stuartaxelowen]

The hard part about documentation is that it requires you to have a component that can be comprehensibly and sufficiently documented. So much of the software written is seen as provisional, that even its authors think “well, we’ll document the v1”, not realizing that their prototype is just that.

[Vampiero]

Give it a few years and it will be self-maintaining