On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:46 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:
Correct.  We roll our own build snapshots periodically, but we also
keep a pretty careful eye on what's going on in the -stable branches.

Okay, that makes sense to me ;-)

I mean, I guess Yahoo has enough resources to literally run every commit to -stable through a full test cycle and push it out to every machine, but my

No.  Why on earth would we do that?  if we wanted to cause ourselves
that much pain for no good reason, we'd go get a pencil and stab
ourselves in the eye.

Yes, we are definitely on the same page. Thanks for the clarification ;-)

We don't upgrade machines that have been deployed unless there is a
good reason to.

Do you deploy machines for longer than 1 year? How do you deal with security patches in the longer term?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness


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