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why do they release it at 5pm PDT? A lot of people are leaving work on the west coast. The rest of the country people are home eating dinner. EU is sleeping. Re
by hijinks 10y ago
why do they release it at 5pm PDT? A lot of people are leaving work on the west coast. The rest of the country people are home eating dinner. EU is sleeping. Really stupid time.
- wyaeld 10y agoIts probably the most convenient window to minimise service disruption amongst users of gitlabs. Pretty common for security patches to take place out of hours
- peter_tonoli 10y agoUnless it creates a 'thundering herd', everyone downloading the update simultaneously, killing throughput.
- jrochkind1 10y agoHandling large volume of downloads of one static large package is in general a pretty solved problem.
- breakingcups 10y ago(Unless you're Apple)
- kpcyrd 10y agoThis is why torrents exist.
- Jedd 10y agoHere in AU, we're not comfortable with the proposition that security alerts should be delayed until it's convenient for where $SOMEONE_ELSE happens to live. EDIT: Or, indeed, that security patches should be delayed at all.
- iancarroll 10y agoYou shouldn't think of this as being delayed; they are providing advance notice of a serious vulnerability being patched so that those using it can update ASAP.
- Jedd 10y agoAgreed and understood. I meant delayed in the sense that if a patch is available, and fixes anything other than a trivial problem, it should be released as soon as is practicable (appreciating that there may be dependencies they wish to synchronise with, or in this case, trying to mitigate the obvious risks associated with the immediate definition of the exploit). Obviously I'm not limiting myself to gitlab patches here. Appreciate the heads-up - especially for people with an unfortunate combination of highly exposed systems and inconvenient timezones. : )
- engiqueer 10y agoRemind me where AU is again??