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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, William Grant <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Exactly.

-Rob