On 11 September 2013 16:45, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
There was a recent mail saying that Labs is not considered "production" stability. Mainly a disagreement about how many 9s in the 99.99999% that represents.
<tangent> A familiar rookie error in adding meaningless commitments in operational support contracts. No matter how many (fantasy) 9's recurring after the decimal reassures you that the risk lower than an asteroid wiping out the human race tomorrow, when you ask what damages you get back if the system goes down for an actual day or an actual week, the answer tends to be zero.
I remember the 1980's when us software engineers used to talk about hot-swapping, triple-redundancy and service level guarantees. Out of vogue now I guess in the new world of Agile response teams, zero-hour contracted support etc.
Fae