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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This would chop 4 hours off the time that things take to deploy,
>> remove one buildbot queue and generally make the whole code->live
>> story a bit simpler, at the cost of making the security-fix story more
>> complex. Personally, I think that that is a net win.
>
> It's not just security fixes that need this sort of treatment. See, for
> example, jtv's recent emergency Codehosting fix: it needed to skip ahead
> of un-QA'd revisions. Cowboying may be appropriate here too. I don't
> really know.

So really, we're saying that there are two sorts of changes:
 - must-deploy-asap
 - deploy-with-due-care

Jeroen's fix could well have gone the deploy with due care course,
once we've got that down to a matter of hours. But it could have gone
asap too.

-Rob