If You Don't Continuously Update Apps/Web Services, You'll Never Be Able to Develop Them Again

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Sun, June 8, 2014

I have several Android/iPhone apps and web services where development has stopped due to resource constraints.

I thought I’d make some light modifications after a long time and tried to set up the development environment, but I couldn’t even do that.

For example, with web services, when I tried git clone → npm install, it would fail during the installation of specific modules.

And for iPhone apps, since Apple is working hard, Xcode has evolved tremendously, and it’s in a state where it can’t be built with the latest Xcode.

Fortunately, only the Android app could be built successfully because the development environment changes aren’t that significant, but if I leave this alone, it will probably break eventually too.

I should continuously update them.

After development is mostly finished and enters the operational phase, occasionally paying attention to them is something I’m quite reluctant to do…

If this situation continues, I need to do maintenance regularly - that was my reflection.

That’s all from the Gemba.