tracking -stable in the enterprise

[Jo Rhett]

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?

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Jo Rhett
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