Today is refactoring day

Today is refactoring day at STAQ. From an email I just sent to our team:

My hope is that today we focus on maintenance of the most critical parts of the app, resolving the most painful hacks, paying down the most significant parts of our technical debt, while being careful to avoid yak-shaving or gold-plating, or various other programmer pitfalls. It also needs to be something that can be finished by close of business.

Definitely check in with team leaders to make sure your project meets that definition :-)

Personally, I think I am going to take a quick look at [some occasional weird exceptions in Airbrake] and pick 1 or 2 of those to put to bed. Then I am going to do some "organizational refactoring"

-Mike

 I'm really looking forward to seeing what we come up with! I've been wanting to try this for a few years, since I heard a story about LivingSocial. According to the story, there was a period of time when they did this kind of thing every Friday - no new code was allowed to be committed on Fridays: the team work on only fixes, refactorings, deletions, etc.