Comment by k_sze
6 years ago
Perhaps.
But if I'm the proverbial twentieth person to ask the same question, it's probably a hint that it should be documented/explained prominently - maybe in a README, maybe as a comment in the source code, maybe some other suitable place.
And maybe it's just me. I'm a team lead and I have constant impostor syndrome. I was airborne into an existing team of junior devs who had no real team lead, but some of the devs know their stuff better than I do. E.g. I don't know modern ES, TypeScript, or React. I can't write CSS for the life of me. I'm mostly a back end Python/Django geek/Linux graybeard. I have since learned to not be afraid to sound like a doofus. I just ask away when I'm reviewing code and I don't understand something in modern ES/TypeScript/JSX/TSX/etc.
Like, if you are generally a nice guy, people you work with will eventually (and rather quickly) figure out that's just how you ask questions and don't mean any mockery.
> But if I'm the proverbial twentieth person to ask the same question, it's probably a hint that it should be documented/explained prominently
If you're joining a project, or it's published, sure.
If you're just having a conversation you don't start off by skimming a dozen pages of documentation. So put in a tiny amount of effort with your wording, to show you realize they might have thought of this already.