[ale] IBM is buying Redhat!

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 09:54:08AM -0400, Simba via Ale wrote:
> Patches need to be deployed fast. Your testing environment and process
> needs to be lightweight and dynamic, and if you take longer than 30 days
> to update to the current recommended stable version of _anything_, then
> you're incompetent.

Or the testing regimen is so comprehensive that it simply takes longer?

There is a middle ground to be had here, and one size does not fit all.

> You're quoting the procedures of incompetent people as if they're role
> models whose examples should be followed. It's a ship of fools.

Never forget that those incompetent fools hold the purse strings to the
ship that you are trying to board.  Their game, their rules.

"Process is how you get consistent results out of medoicre people"

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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