Hey Cal, are you the maintainer of this tool we use in our build?
(ooh, maybe they're asking about adding a new feature!) Yeah, what's up?
The last commit was 3 years ago…
Seems right, yeah
Shouldn't it be updated?
If there's a problem to solve or an improvement, then of course. What do you need?
I can't think of anything, it just seems kind of old
When you write careful code, it doesn't rot as quickly…
Breathe, Cal. Breathe.
@calcifer Write a bot that randomly touches files every few weeks with non-breaking changes.
@mdhughes nah, this is solveable by educating the newer/younger folks that "time since commit" isn't as strong an indicator of utility as they assume, especially for internal projects
I want to fix the perception problem, not reinforce it. One of the perks of having seniority and authority in an org is you can actually improve culture