RE: Improving Steem's Hard Fork Process: Where's The Documentation? Decentralisation in Theory Only?
My take on this valid concern is that I would give all these boys in blockchain a bit time. Even we know Steemit Inc is heavily driving so it is a bit not really decentralised we should focus on the de-centralized young models we all are part of. I am a non tech guy and usually see all only from a marketing perspective. Sure it would have been good to do longer stress tests here - but at least it was communicated there would be some tech issues coming they can not foresee. A lot people complain right now about the implementation, it could have gone more smooth, fair enough but many of the guys come up with comparison to totally centralised models like banks. I see major trend here to go into a strange route of back to past - also solutions like steem-ua are totally centralised and not transparent. Take a look at EOS and what struggles they had, BTC chain had massive bugs - as long as in 5 days as anticipated all works well - fine to me.
My aim is in no way to go 'backwards' - it is just to affirm that some things are done a certain way in the 'old' systems for very good reasons - because they work effectively with minimal need for extra overheads.
It is totally understandable for a new company to be limited in terms of it's team and overstretched, perhaps - but Steemit has a lot of money available, as far as I can see - so I don't understand what is holding them back.
Valid points - maybe they need advise on how to allocate budgets, maybe they underestimated what is required and thought witnesses are enough. Sure they learn from that experience. Heard similar thoughts by people i respect and appreciate your thoughts. Maybe a young company needs to listen to old tech farts too. Re money, no idea what was the issue - maybe the plan a present for all Steemians and hence saved it for that 😎
I think it partially comes down to where people were trained. It is entirely possible to learn computer programming without learning systems engineering and architecture - plus also without learning structured design principles of the type used usually in high value/risk projects.
I don't know what methodologies are being used here, but the absence of diagrams and documentation is a clue to me that there isn't likely to be much available.
Agreed - ib my job I am a fan of project management reporting tools - better to coordinate team work. Voting btw after rc / sp loaded again - not that u think i would not appreciate - usually voting all useful comments 🌍
hehe - no problem, maybe things will be normalised in another 3/4 days - we shall see.
i feel it's important to have actual system architects involved, alongside project managers - to ensure the vision is clear and maintained. i know though, that from a developer's perspective, the top-down approach can feel unpleasant too. balance needs to be found.