On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> But at the most basic level – it was a human error (as I read it). “Someone”
> didn’t mark the update package as a critical update.

  At the most basic level, all errors are human errors.  :-)  Either
someone didn't follow the design, or someone didn't foresee a failure
case in the design.

> Arguably (and I can see this), because the package had 5 weeks before it was
> required…

  Prolly a better approach to scheduling is not a raw priority field,
but something deadline and dependency based.  </captain obvious>

  It also occurs to me that treating the certificates as part of the
software build may be a poor choice.  I realize that a software
install needs something to start with, but that could be a bootstrap
element, and from there it could update via other mechanisms.  (Think
DNS root hints.)  But I don't know enough about their architecture to
say.  It might be their "Fabric Controller" management architecture is
more flexible than that blog post leads me to believe, or there might
be other factors involved that I'm not aware.

-- Ben

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