Game developer loses multiplayer service code

Re:Game developer loses multiplayer service code by tomc1985 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:47PM (#20912039)

Shit like this happens more often than one might think. My last job we had one magic disk image that worked and anything else we tried to handroll didn't. (The app itself was written in an ancient version of Django.)

While working on other things I discovered modifications written directly to cached versions of the Django instance itself, which were not committed to any source control. He simply edited the instance of Django in the disk image, which was then replicated to our various deployments.

The worst part was the mods this guy made were perfectly capable of running within our project, from code in source control. Why he took the approach he did was a complete mystery to us.

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Re:Game developer loses multiplayer service code by Shish2k on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:31AM (#20916225)

My last job had similar -- our internal tools were a buggy mess, to the point where customer support spent upwards of 75% of their time fighting the software instead of supporting customers - but the CEO decided that the dev team would not fix any bugs that aren't DIRECTLY affecting end-users, nor would the dev team "waste time" reviewing patches from frustrated tech-literate support staff fixing internal bugs for themselves.

However, the support staff still had root logins to all our servers, so they followed the letter of the law by not having their patches go through the code review / source control / gradual rollout process...

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