* Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most > > developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do > > development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for > > development use only or development+personal use? I know -current can > > break sometimes and am just curious to know if developers risk putting > > personal stuff on a laptop that is being used for active development. > > > > Thanks. > > Ehh, for me personal use very much equals development (plus some mail > and browsing of cousre). > > If developers don't run current, bugs will be found too late. If > current isn't good enough, developers will be bitten, and action will > be taken VERY soon.
We even run our production system on -current, that is several servers. We want to catch problems before the hit our customers with the next update... This can of course backfire, but only very rarely: E.g. the update of the spamd protocol to version 2 now leads to our mailserver no longer being able to talk to the other mailserver we operate for customer and that run OpenBSD 4.2 or 4.3... ;) But that's life. > Data destroying bugs are really rare in any case. Data loss caused by > hardware going broken or personal mistakes is much more likely. > > I like what art@ said a long time ago: if your work destroys itself, > it's not good enough. > > Kind of genetic programming without all the AI fluff ;-) I like that ;) Yet we have tape backups of everything.. - Marc
