On 7 March 2014 22:39, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With all due respect; hell, yes, development comes in second to operational > stability. > This is not disrespecting development, which is extremely important by any > measure. But we're running a top-10 worldwide website, a key worldwide > information resource for humanity as a whole. We cannot cripple > development to try and maximize stability, but stability has to be priority > 1. Any large website's teams will have the same attitude. > I've had operational outages reach the top of everyone's news > source/feed/newspaper/broadcast. This is an exceptionally unpleasant > experience. Speaking as a sysadmin with "it's gotta be up!" responsibility, I wholeheartedly concur. But then this is an argument for "branch live 24 hours before deploy time", not "halt development". People can generally cope with two branches for 24 hours. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
