I think it differs from place to place. I worked with some (mostly: non-bitcoin finance / telco industry) companies where removing tech debt was only second to fixing bugs, but there were many more cases where there wasn't any discipline around it at all. None of these were FOSS companies though, so they had contractual obligations (or in some cases, awesome "service" contracts where the customer pays for filing a change request or issue against your debt) and bottom line most were sensitive to avoiding damages and some were sensitive to recognizing that reputation damage is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
This was 1-2 decades ago. It won't fly now. You get breached, you just do a press release and move on.
Line 16+ of the CLN license is why it doesn't really matter what you ship in FOSS, because you waive all liability. This is also why as a party that has anything real at stake (think: reputation, so anything but startups), you can't just install CLN binaries (or Bitcoin Core for that matter) and yolo. It's a critical stage now though, where startups that matured over the years in some aspects of their business (mostly: growth) have not reciprocated that in the maturity of their processes, and all dev process is dead now. I feel like a dinosaur, so I probably am one. Ripe for extinction.
I think it differs from place to place. I worked with some (mostly: non-bitcoin finance / telco industry) companies where removing tech debt was only second to fixing bugs, but there were many more cases where there wasn't any discipline around it at all. None of these were FOSS companies though, so they had contractual obligations (or in some cases, awesome "service" contracts where the customer pays for filing a change request or issue against your debt) and bottom line most were sensitive to avoiding damages and some were sensitive to recognizing that reputation damage is the worst thing that can possibly happen.
This was 1-2 decades ago. It won't fly now. You get breached, you just do a press release and move on.
Line 16+ of the CLN license is why it doesn't really matter what you ship in FOSS, because you waive all liability. This is also why as a party that has anything real at stake (think: reputation, so anything but startups), you can't just install CLN binaries (or Bitcoin Core for that matter) and yolo. It's a critical stage now though, where startups that matured over the years in some aspects of their business (mostly: growth) have not reciprocated that in the maturity of their processes, and all dev process is dead now. I feel like a dinosaur, so I probably am one. Ripe for extinction.