open letter to six apart

[rone]

I would like to introduce to Six Apart the concept that those of us in systems administration call a "staging environment".  In it, one stages new releases on a reasonable facsimile of the production environment (that is, the one with live users), in order to avoid exposing the production environment to any late bugs that arise during deployment.  Please run it by your Director of Operations.

(If they'd hired me a year and a half ago, i could've given them a head start on this.  Too bad, so sad.)