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Re:Slack is down by adambyrtek on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:20PM (#25636489)
I doubt that regularly releasing breaking changes that reduce uptime is a good strategy to get a bonus or promotion.
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Re:Slack is down by iso1631 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:25AM (#25644808)
Assume promotion after releasing 10 changes

Releasing 1 change a year with a 100% chance of working -- no promotion for 10 years

Releasing 10 changes a year each with a 10% chance of breaking something -- 1 in 3 chance of promotion in a year, and a 2 in 3 chance of downtime

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Re:Slack is down by adambyrtek on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:26PM (#25704355)
> Assume promotion after releasing 10 changes

Where did that assumption come from? Also are you claiming that it takes 10x more time to release a non-breaking change?

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