Understanding HEARTBEAT_PERIOD: Why a Reporter Sometimes Chooses Not to Write
A maintainer asked me to look at a merged PR in node-readiness-controller and figure out how to get it into NRC documentation. That was the whole assignment as it was given to me. I opened the PR #263 and the first thing I saw was a variable called HEARTBEAT_PERIOD. I had no idea what it did neither did I knew what a “heartbeat” meant in this context. I want to write down what it actually took to go from that to actually document it and ultimately get it merged as part of the NRC documentation. ...