tracking -stable in the enterprise

[Jo Rhett]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 7:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> FWIW, Yahoo! tracks -stable branches, not point releases.


I'm curious about this (and stealing the dead thread).

How does one track -stable in an enterprise environment?  I assume  
that what you mean is "we pick points in -stable that we believe are  
stable enough and create a snapshot from this point that we test and  
roll out to production" ...?  Am I wrong?

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 mind boggles to imagine the manpower cost of doing  
so.  (and to justify the manpower cost versus the gain from doing so...)

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