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[Tim Penhey <tim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:09:57 Martin Pool wrote:
> On 7 July 2010 00:23, Francis J. Lacoste <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Actually,
> > 
> > That's not correct. We run the latest revision of lp:~launchpad-
> > pqm/loggerhead/devel
> > 
> > So landing on lp:loggerhead aren't deployed until somebody pushes/merge
> > them to that other branch.
> 
> OK, that's a useful correction.
> 
> (I don't think calling the deployment branch 'devel' is the best
> naming decision ever. ;-)
> 
> The point remains though that there is no production-like testing of
> changes until they are rolled out everywhere.  If we make a mistake in
> what goes into lp:~launchpad-pqm/loggerhead/devel, that will only be
> detected when it's live for everybody - at which point I suppose we
> can roll back to the previous version.  If everybody working on or
> supporting loggerhead is ok with this then it's ok with me.

OK, not entirely true.  We do have a staging loggerhead.  Although actually 
doing the testing is a bit more of an issue as we don't have (many) *real* 
branches on staging to test against.