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Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by flyingswift on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:39AM (#17343878)
From my experience on the O365 team, it would have been difficult to push code without approval because it would have voilated a number of the compliance requirements that area of the business has to meet.

But yeah, I suppose there are other areas of the company that might have more relaxed requirements

Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by rootsudo on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:58AM (#17345454)
I disagree on the o365 team, since most of the programmers are WiPro and TaTa and shuffle in and out.

While I was on the Enterprise services team, looking upon IRadaS for something that broke after a push we always debated was it malicious or incompetence.

Then again, what do I know.

Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by XorNot on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:47AM (#17344310)
This doesn't sound like a technical control though?
Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by mcintyre1994 on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:17AM (#17345259)
You can enforce it on your git server. My experience is with Bitbucket but I'm sure Github has the same options. You could set up something like: nobody can push to master except through the PR UI, all PRs must have a reviewer, no PR can be merged to master without being approved by all reviewers. That way you guarantee that everything on master can be tracked to a dev + a reviewer giving sign off.
Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by XorNot on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:09AM (#17345816)
Sure but who admins the git server? At work it's actually me (and my team) - we have backend access to the git repos as a necessary result of that. While it would be tricky to hide changes, if people only merge via PR it would be easy to bury a few extra commits no one worries about provided they don't break anything.
Re:Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging ... by greglindahl on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:19AM (#17344672)
Wait, so you're saying that your personal experience is that Microsoft has exactly the same flaw that you're complaining about?