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A dirty hack that exists now is infinitely better than a properly developed tool that has gone through all stages of approval and quality control at some theoretical point in the future.
My shitty report.pl script was heavily frowned upon when I put it on the production servers. Not only was it an undocumented script, but there was going to be a "proper" tool for that soon. Well, the proper tool never arrived and now three years later everyone is using my script because we are all too lazy to compile a list of warnings manually.
I always tell people "There is nothing more permanent that a temporary hack that works". It also means that sometimes I will refuse the hack because I know ut will become permanent.
I think it depends on how dirty it is and how easy it is to replace. A decent solution now is better than waiting for the perfect solution that may never come.
Jack it together now but then a Italy run the proper fix. Don't leave dirty hacks in production or test.
Your Polish real estate maintenance script? 😆
A perl script which collects some basic stuff from a few servers in a cluster to get some statistics and compile a quick overview of things to keep an eye on.
I got it, I was making a joke about your script name showing as a clickable link to a website of a Polish property maintenance company