Re: avoid friday deployments?
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:56:17AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>
> What do people think of such a policy? Should I refrain from uploading
> those three packages today and complete that work monday?
>
I don't think it makes much difference in the end, so long as you are
available and willing to work any follow-up issues. I think some people
find easier to commit large blocks of weekend time to deal with
unexpected issues. Some weeks I am quite busy and so I will take this
approach. Other times I have more flexibility during the week so I will
prefer to deploy during the week so as to not disturb my weekend time.
> Bonus points for horror stories (or positive experiences!) of friday
> deployment shared.
>
Last year when I upgraded some servers from Wheezy to Jessie, I did
encounter some unexpected issues. I don't recall for certain, but I
believe I chose a friday of a holiday weekend to allow me the flexbility
to take services down without impacting users. However, things went
poorly and it took over a week to get everything functioning properly.
It would have been the same whether I started on a weekend or weekday.
As I recall, the issue had to do with Xen and with booting the guest
VMs. All in all, though, a dist-upgrade to a new release is far more
risky than a security update to a small number of packages.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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