Always super exciting when you're given the task of updating an automated process, and when going through one of the scripts, you find the comment "we are not currently (as of 10/7/14) using this functionality, but leaving it in just in case". The person who put that comment in hasn't worked for the company for years, which implies no one has touched this thing for over six years. Who knows what other gems I might find in here?
@mike sounds like the possibility of all sorts of goodies.
@mike You could create a cross-history conversation!
@mike Yeah, that can get interesting! Early in my career I enabled a GPO created by a former staffer, which had names and commenting like it was fully ready... when all it did was plunge the assigned computers into an endless reboot loop. No cleanup of half-baked GPOs, no unique naming of GPOs in testing... heh
@mike careful - there be dragons!
@mike does the code smell musty like a basement?
@mike what happened to KISS philosophy?
@mike Positive sign that the previous folks identified the segment and commented, no?