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Originally Posted by DanF
If everything could be properly done from the start, we wouldn't have any updates or patches or new versions. Just something to remember.
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To be clear, I'm not suggesting a feature has to be perfect before OOTP implements it. What I am saying is that any feature needs to be thought through carefully, in great detail, all the possible ramifications of the feature considered, then a precise roadmap drawn up clearly laying out what the ultimate form of the feature looks like and how to get from here to there in reasonable steps. A feature can then be implemented in stages over several versions, secure in the knowledge of how each stage fits into the overall plan.
My feeling is that too much of the time that doesn't happen with OOTP, and too often features are implemented on an ad hoc basis without a clear long-range plan of where that feature will end up and how to get there.