Describe your system

Four steps, and every question is one we would have to ask anyway before quoting anything. Skip whatever you do not know. A half-filled form still gets a real answer.

01The system you haveWhatever you know. Approximate answers are useful; a wrong precise one is not.

Stack and version

Roughly how much code

How old is it

Who keeps it running

Can you still build it from source

02What hurtsTick everything that applies. The combination tells us more than any single item.

What is wrong with it now

Something else, then

What happened most recently

03Where you want it to end upIf you have no target stack in mind, say so. The constraints matter more than the preference.

Target stack, if you have one

Constraints we should know about

When you want it done

Is somebody else setting the date

The date, if you know it

04Who we talk toLast step. An engineer reads all of this before anyone replies.

Name

Your role

Work email

Company

How to reach you

We need an NDA before anything technical

Anything else