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Re:Lessons from six years as a solo consultant by jimnotgym on Sunday January 05, 2020 @07:20AM (#21960963)
Change control need not be onerous.

One important aspect of it is simply sharing that a change is going to be made. It stops a few of those 'if only you had told me first' conversations.

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Re:Lessons from six years as a solo consultant by humanrebar on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:48PM (#21965144)
My point is actually that it's not possible to do that meaningfully past a certain (rather modest) level of complexity and reuse. How does a library like openssl meaningfully and thoroughly notify all it's downstream users in Debian, Node, Gentoo, etc. what changes to pay attention to?
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