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Apparently, though unproven, at 17:12 on Thursday 09 September 2010, Neil |
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Bothwick did opine thusly: |
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> > It's 130 different configs on 150 machines serving 30 different |
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> > systems, many of them legacy systems. Management once asked what it |
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> > will take to unlegacy all of that. They didn't like my answer: |
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> > Triple the salary budget |
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> > Two years. |
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> If you really wanted it, you could quote lower and then slightly revise |
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> upwards in light of "unforseen circumstances"... rinse and repeat. |
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I don't want it. |
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I like Gentoo in -dev |
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I will not allow Gentoo anywhere near -prod |
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This is a very considered decision, as a result of already having to fix (many |
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times) the monumental fuck ups that happen when it is done in an environment |
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such as this. |
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Why should I do all the work of pinning packages to known good versions when |
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the RHEL devs have already done all the heavy lifting for me? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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