Re:We should all be using dependency cooldowns
by saurik on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:38PM
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If your internal process is willing to ship and deploy upgrades--whether to your code or that of a third party--without testing even so minimally to notice that they cause almost a 100% chance of crashing, you need the advice to slow down your updates more than anyone...
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Re:We should all be using dependency cooldowns
by jcalvinowens on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:51PM
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Obviously, they caught the bug and didn't deploy it.
The point is that a change to a completely unrelated component caused a latent bug to make the device unusable, ended up delaying a release for weeks and causing them have to pay me a bunch of money to fix it for them.
If they'd been applying upgrades, they would have never even known it existed, and all that trouble would have been avoided.
I mean, I'm sort of working against my own interest here: arguably I should want people to delay upgrades so I can get paid to backport things for them :)