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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> Nobody has a copy of the file beforehand :-(. It had a patch on it to |
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> fix a previous crash, but said patch seems to have been lost. |
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Hopefully something has changed so that this sort of thing doesn't happen again? |
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We had a situation like this happen at work - we actually had to pay |
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to have something re-developed from requirements because nobody |
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bothered to check in the source code. As an added bonus it was legacy |
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code that nobody even used any longer, but which needed to be present |
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so that old data in the system could still be retrieved. Calculate |
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the ROI on that... |
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Just another reason developers shouldn't have access to production |
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systems. I'd hope that most would think twice before writing an |
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install script that says "Step 4 - get Joe to email you the file...." |
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:) |
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Rich |
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