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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 July 2010 20:46, Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I can imagine it being much easier for simpler schema extensions, but I
>> ain't gonna go through the effort while there is db-devel around. :)
>
> In a lot of ways, the way we have devel/stable/db-devel/db-stable
> setup we are meeting a lot of the points mentioned in the article. We
> do deploy trunk (edge and staging), exposing new stuff to a subset of
> users for testing (edge, while the article prefers configuration and
> the mess of 'if then else' code and the extra costs that creates with
> your test suite, which wasn't mentioned - most web applications don't
> have them).

One big difference is that changes in Launchpad seem to be largely
all-at-once and irrevocable except for emergencies that justify a
rollback.

-- 
Martin