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[William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/06/11 18:27, Graham Binns wrote:
> On 7 June 2011 07:40, William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 07/06/11 15:21, William Grant wrote:
>>> [snip undue optimism]
>>> r13162 is currently being deployed to nodowntime, so we will just be
>>> deploying the merge revision and the two RC fixes during downtime.
>>> Assuming nothing goes wrong, the advanced bug subscriptions work will be
>>> turned on for everyone a couple of hours after we come back up.
>>
>> And so the saga continues. Turns out r13154 was bad for the third time
>> (see comments #7 and #8 in
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/772609). It has been reverted
>>  in r13168. So we have to deploy at least that.
> 
> At this stage I don't think we should attempt to land a working
> version of that patch - it's obvious that there are some holes in our
> test coverage - either big or subtle - and I don't particularly want
> to have to do this whole dance again on a tight timeframe. The fix for
> 772609 can be rolled out without downtime later.

Agreed. It's not essential, and we are already cutting it fine.

I also think it's likely that the holes are big *and* subtle.

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