I wrote I would add that write-up to my todo list.
I wrote that I could not estimate a completion time.
I can not do any better than that.
Maybe someone else can.
If someone else can, then they should not wait around for me to do it.
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Originally Posted by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - The Mytical Man-Month
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of
the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but
it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in
two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has
not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices—wait or eat
it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.
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Only I don't "ship it raw", because "Hack" is a four letter word.