[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:34:23AM +0000, James Hawtin wrote:
> [...] Other reasons for locking things down, is the ability to reproduce
> things, if a developer tweeks a machine, have we made sure that knowledge
> is reproducable (if we lose a machine or a developer?), is it compatible
> with other tweeks? One of the largest annoynaces can be different package
> and updates between an dev and a production evironment.

Any place that does the build on a random developer's workstation and
deploys that directly to live deserves to fail. The problem is not because
the workstations aren't locked down to a standard build, but the lack of
proper build and testing infrastructure.

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