The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership

We get left on the floor, picked last, or somehow follow only those humans who exercise great care, regardless of what team they are on,” said the wise code. An ops team, or other less fortunate team in a structure where things roll downhill to them, is probably not the best to maintain a codebase where they have little domain knowledge and prioritize that maintenance against infrastructure stability, upgrades, and improvements. Many organizations have attempted an overlayed matrix model, such as Spotify guilds or Valve’s cabals, to assign ownership to orphaned code projects.

Source: circleci.com