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[William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 16:41 +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> 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.

How can that get down to a few hours? That would require that everything
be QA'd moments after it lands.

William.

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