paper: Stop the Stop Build

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The argument that every team should be like 254 is weak...

Where did I make this argument? I do not think this, and did not say this.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Every team has already decided how they are going to schedule their meeting times.

Of course every team has a schedule, and has presumably put considerable thought into it...thought that all assumes a six-week open-access build season because that is the system we currently have. Changing this underlying assumption permits some (not all) teams to find new solutions and make new trade offs between what they put into and get out of the program.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

Hubris is blinding.

I expected neither "Have-you-tried-not-making-mentors-burn-out" nor "I-find-it's-preferable-not-to-burn-out-if-you-can-help-it" to be particularly novel ideas that this team had never thought of. Rather, I had hoped to foster a reply to understand why these might not be on the table, even with an extended build season. I want to better understand differing viewpoints on this and (in particular) what attitudes would be towards some sort of middle ground.