On 7 March 2014 22:39, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)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.