A bit of a retro on this assertion, since I was confident I’d be ready to launch this experiment by the end of the month, but as discussed in the new intro, I’m pushing the launch back by a month.
I was actually fairly well calibrated on the amount of technical work involved in launching the Discourse plugin. It’s nearly done (at least in an initial state) and could be merged by the end of the month.
However, I didn’t realize how many other things would need to go in before we can do the CredSperiment, namely:
- integrate identity resolution, so that cred flows between Discourse and GitHub properly
- build some tooling for tracking the CredSperiment, so we aren’t doing all of the accounting by hand or in some Google Doc
- spend a little more time giving dedicated thoughts to the game mechanics before we launch it
So, basically, I did alright estimating the timeline for specific work, and a bad job of estimating scope.