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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On August 20, 2009, Steve McInerney wrote:
> >  I couldn't find anything on the list in a brief scan.  What's the
> > right escalation for such an outage?
>
> I'd suggest there isn't one and shouldn't be one, at least outside core
> hours. Within core hours the process is well established: we get alerts
> and respond based on priority need.
>
> Treating it as a production system would entail needing another another
> system that could trial run these updates - and break - in the current
> automated fashion. ie staging-production vs staging-staging. Or bring
> back the rarely updated demo system.

Right, staging is there for QA and one aspect of the QA is testing that the 
build system works. When it doesn't we need to fix it, but on working hours.

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Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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