FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins.
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Wed May 15 15:44:48 UTC 2019
Hi, Reference:
> From: Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 08:32:26 -0600
Alan Somers wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:26 AM Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi core@,
> > cc hackers@ & stable@
> >
> > PR headline : "FreeBSD flood of 8 breakage announcements in 3 mins."
> >
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2019-May/date.html
> >
> > Volunteers who contribute actual fixes are very much appreciated;
> > But those styled as 'management' who delay announcements to batch floods
> > damage us. As they've previously refused to stop, it's time to sack them.
> >
> > Just send each announcement out when ready, no delays to batch them.
> > No sys admins can deal with 8 in 3 mins:
> > Especially on multiple systems & releases. Recipients start
> > mitigating, then more flood in, & need review which are
> > most urgent to interrupt to; While also avoiding sudden upgrades
> > to many servers & releases, to minimise disturbing server users,
> > bosses & customers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> > --
> > Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent
> > http://stolenvotes.uk Brexit ref. stole votes from 700,000 Brits in EU.
> > Lies bought; Groups fined; 1.9 M young had no vote, 1.3 M old leavers died.
>
> I disagree, Julian. I think SAs are easier to deal with when they're
> batched. True, I can't fix the first one in less than 3 minutes. But
> then I probably wouldn't even notice it that fast. Batching them all
> together means fewer updates and reboots.
Batching also means some of these vulnerabilities could have been
fixed earlier & less of a surge of demand on recipient admins time.
An admin can find time to ameliorate 1 bug, not 8 suddenly together.
Avoidance is called planning ahead. Giving warning of a workload.
Like an admin plans ahead & announces an outage schedule for planned upgrade.
Suddenly dumping 8 on admins causes overload on admin manpower.
8 reason for users to approach admin in parallel & say
"FreeBSD seems riddled, how long will all the sudden unplanned
outages take ? Should we just dump it ?"
Dont want negative PR & lack of management.
Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent
http://stolenvotes.uk Brexit ref. stole votes from 700,000 Brits in EU.
Lies bought; Groups fined; 1.9 M young had no vote, 1.3 M old leavers died.
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