Iirc it can break federation

This is probably it’s headline feature

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That’s definitely not senior dev behaviour, was he also involved in defining the best practices? If so he should 100% be following them as an example to other devs, and if he has an issue with individual parts (which is fine) he should discuss with the team about changing them.

Aversion to tests is also a really concerning problem I would say. And you should not have to fix his code in PR, it’s his code!! I’m afraid I don’t have any answers for you but you are right to find this unusual!

But people can still reply to posts so you’d need moderation still.

On the case of this and Paul Walker I think it’s Ok, it’s productions they were already involved in and it’s avoiding risk to jobs etc. especially in the case of walker where they had has family involved and iirc his brother was the on set actor.

Does this mean the reason he had to pull out in the first place was because he ran out of fuel?

He also directed the new Top Gun, and I’d say in that he was pretty good at capturing the feel of speed on film which doesn’t always come across that well, so he had a good chance at making it interesting to watch at least.