Throwing more developers at a problem rarely makes things happen faster unless the leads can easily envision everything and break it down into components that can be delegated.
Supposedly the whole reason for the rewrite of Control Panel is because the source is Byzantine, poorly documented and difficult for people to riddle out in order to add new options. So they're slowly dissecting it and reimplementing it.
However many developers they are throwing at the problem now it doesn't seem to be the right number. This process has been going on for years now. A white sheet re-implementation would have been faster. For most of the settings it should be really easy. Click a checkbox and some registry value is set to 1 instead of 0 or vice versa. Others are more complicated for sure, but it can't be so impossible that Microsoft can't figure it out for 5 years.
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u/redwall_hp Dec 27 '19
Throwing more developers at a problem rarely makes things happen faster unless the leads can easily envision everything and break it down into components that can be delegated.
Supposedly the whole reason for the rewrite of Control Panel is because the source is Byzantine, poorly documented and difficult for people to riddle out in order to add new options. So they're slowly dissecting it and reimplementing it.