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