Daniel Jakots <d...@chown.me> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:49:20 -0500, "Rafael Possamai" > <raf...@thinkpad.io> wrote: > > > >Hi Bob, it was in the middle of the night and I got quite kinda > > >stressed because all services depending on our ldap proxy stopped > > >working after the upgrade and it took me a while to figure the > > >problem out. > > > > Perhaps this is unsolicited advice, but maybe you can setup a test > > system first, perform major upgrade on it to make sure everything > > works. If so, then do it in production. > > > > Even better, try -current a few weeks before release (a possible hint > is -beta). This way you can get any encountered bug fixed in time for > -release. Your prod but also every one else will benefit from it.
It's very good advice. I can't speak for Bob, but I've been unable to sleep during this outage.
