It's the Winchester Mystery Website!

(props to anyone who knows which t-shirt I'm talking about)

On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:46 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2013/07/25, at 10:24, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote:
> 
>> Well the problem isn't BCP it's security, any backup site would have the 
>> same issue. 
>> 
>> I'm a little surprised, given the login is still active, bug reporter is 
>> working etc that we don't even have a working triage site with a few bits of 
>> functionality like provisioning and asset downloads up, perhaps forums too, 
>> stuff protected only by the normal login. But we don't. Sure hope its soon. 
>> 
> Not all URLs at any domain point to the same applications or security scope. 
> Web sites are applications and generally spaghetti apps that have things 
> cobbled together from lots of sources. As they grow overtime it is easy to 
> get a security mess or at least hard to turn off sections that are security 
> scoped unless you designed it for that in the beginning. 
> Anyone who has worked with enterprise software knows how these things can 
> become a mess that is ignored until critical events occur. 
> Anyone who has built software over time knows that complexity and fragility 
> grow as software grows and evolves. 
> Sometimes you have to start over with architecture even if it ends up looking 
> the same at the interface level. 
> Design patterns help, but eventually feature changes that are not part of 
> wholistic design result in Frankenstein software. 
> Ecosystems do introduce dependencies. 
> 
> Give it a rest. 
> Let them fix things. 
> You are not alone.
> Everyone is affected. 
> If you have a truly truly urgent update that needs to go out, contact them. 
> 
> Complain only to the guy in Turkey who caused this without reaching out to 
> them directly and professionally. His choice of actions caused your grief. 
> He could have handled things very differently. He did not. 
> 
> 
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