Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability

There’s an idea which encounters a bizzare level of resistance from the broader software community: that software can be completed. This resistance manifests in several forms, perhaps the most common being the notion that a git repository which doesn’t receive many commits is abandoned or less worthwhile. For my part, I consider software that aims to be completed to be more worthwhile most of the time. There are two sources of change which projects are affected by: external and internal. An inte...