Release often? let me tell you of a story from a System Administrators perspective as to why thats bad and should be avoided and you should learn from other people's mistakes
There is a reason sysads dislike developers, they have this "oh new code gotta push it out right away" mentality, but we push back saying nope we just did your upgrade it can wait will another one, and the golden rule is nobody updates anything during the christmas "embargo" period which I believe Noel was referring to, this generally is from two weeks before Christmas, til two weeks after the start of the New Year. There was once this young guy who developed this shiny new yet highly popular internet daemon, in its infancy it was a wizzbang and everybody loved it and was moving to it, the problem soon arose that every new feature was pushed out, and as murphy dictates, problem be found, sometimes sysads were having to update this highly popular software every few weeks, sometimes more, there was even a few times we recall having to update it three times in just ONE week because of this push push push mentality, this results in a large percentage of sysads pushing back and refusing to test let alone update, over time this continued, new releases every few weeks, tiresome - like we have nothing better to do but upgrade the same software over and over and over, wasn't going to happen, and didn't happen, some of these were to fix nasty exploitable problems, but almost nobody bothered because "jesus christ another bloody update"... a lot of people were burned. That same project did get a lot better with a rewrite of its code and a move to a new "major release" the updates still came, but not thick and fast, this made sysads much happier, the developer had learned push often is not what system and network operators want, now days sysads love that project, it releases every few months on average which we can accept and has much fewer bugs, and rarely anything severe. That project, is called dovecot On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:17 AM Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 06/12/2021 11:36, Stefan Eissing wrote: > > Friends of httpd, how do you feel about a release in the next two weeks? > > > > +1 > Release early, release often > > Regards > -- > ^TM >
