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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Robert Collins
<robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>

This sounds straightforward.

Would it be appropriate to start tracking how often we engage the
"must-deploy-asap" branch of the process?

jml