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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was this change discussed with the TA or anyone else?

On Friday 23 September 2011 02:29:55 William Grant wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've just revised the DB user section of the DB change policy[1] to
> require that new users, or access to existing users from new machines,
> must be set up on production before a branch requiring the change is
> landed. Previously this was only required at some point before the
> branch was deployed.
> 
> This is similar to our rules around the sequencing of model and DB
> patches, where we now require prerequisite changes to be entirely
> deployed before anything dependent can land.
> 
> Moving these deployment sequence points to pre-landing makes deployments
> faster, easier and safer. I believe the slight delays brought by the
> policies to some landings are a good trade-off here.
> 
> Thanks,
> William
> 
> [1]
> <https://dev.launchpad.net/PolicyAndProcess/DatabaseSchemaChangesProcess#No
> tes_on_Changing_security.cfg>