Even us technical folks are often ignorant of the deeper ways of ops. When
I last fixed a long-standing bug in the PHP parser with the potential to
cause regressions in existing wikitext, it was not exactly trivial to keep
track of where the code was currently live (and exactly when it went live)
-- complicated by the fact that I was convinced that the code *wasn't*
actually in production, despite all evidence to the contrary, because HTML
Tidy was turned on in production and hid the beneficial effects of my
patch. That's just anecdotal evidence of the fact that making
deployment/version info as obvious as possible can be useful even for
"ordinary bug fixers".
--scott
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That would indeed be useful C. Scott.
Actually the people that seem to care most about what is currently
deployed where are product owners and designers from my experience who
are not usually technical. It would be good to give them an easy way
to look this up as I spend a lot of time debugging why something is
not live...
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