Op 05-01-14 14:28, Joerg Jaspert schreef: > On 13446 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> I'm worried that this situation is harmful for the project. > > Yes, seperate development with different requirements than the > production environment is harmful. It's a lesson that every larger > company with an IT Department goes through at some point - and it's > the same for our project. > > You need a development environment that is build and handled the same > way as the production environment. Sure you need to evolve that, it may > not stand still, with new requirements coming along, but you need to do > that in close work with the people maintaining the production one, to > ensure that the way thinks evolve is actually something that can be > mirrored in the area it is intended to be run later. > > (Alternatively you can have a free-for-all run development and then get > a third env, in which you then try to get to run the new release in a > (newer version of the) production env).
Since DSA is using puppet extensively ATM, wouldn't it be better to have a documented procedure on how to set up a VM or chroot or similar environment that uses DSA's puppet recipes to set up a development instance? That way, people can make changes where necessary (while obviously understanding these changes may or may not be acceptable), don't have to worry about making a mistake and killing someone else's machine (after all, it's their own machine), etc. Just a thought. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52cbbf2d.2040...@debian.org
