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.)

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Six Apart

[thedarkages]

I have never liked Six Apart, from the time that they decided to charge Big Bux for Movable Type and, for that money, sold a version laden with bugs. I think Mena Trott is a sanctimonious little parsnip, and Ben's code could benefit from a vigorous application of Perl::Critic.

Needless to say, I was not pleased when they brought their corporatizing Weltanschauung to LiveJournal, and we are now reaping the fruits of same.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

In this particular instance, i would actually prefer to see some corporatization (?) of their operations; this isn't an outfit being run out of Brad's garage anymore, so there's no reason to keep running it like it is. It's a real company, so set up a real operational architecture.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

hee hee

WHAT????

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

you mean that development network is not the QA Net, is not the acceptance network, is not the production network?????

OH MY GOD!!!! You Horrible Segregationalists!!!! Segregating the networks into their own little ghetto's where the end users are merely the dangly bits off the far end of the process!!!!!!

Re: Six Apart

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

and we are now reaping the fruits of same.

Without disagreeing about 6A's awfulness, Livejournal's inability to comprehend even the basic of sound production practices is very much homegrown, and was a constant part of the LJ experience long before the buyout (http://dr-memory.livejournal.com/56653.html).

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Man, i hate it when i rip off my friends' schticks.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

The funny thing was, when I read this post I found myself thinking "I know I said that once", but it then took me 15 minutes to find the post because ha ha ha lj still has no search feature.