[ThrowawayCoward]

The rewrite started a year ago. It's the _fifth_ version of the same product that is only four years old. I joined this project about a month ago, but have been working on a related project and interacting with them for about three years.

I agree that sometimes things have to be fixed now and cleaned later, but it should make you feel a little bit queasy when you do it, and you should be aware that you are adding future work to the project.

I skimmed that link and it looks great, I'll be diving in fully. Since I've seen the posts from others and was leaning that way already, it's likely I won't send it, but I really want to push this project to be better. Since you suggested strategy 6, I read that first, and it's awesome and difficult. Part of being new means that more than a usual amount of my development time is spent understanding the project. I've felt rather unproductive because of this.

Thank you.