I think that can be aimed at solving a different problem to the one superficially described. I've seen places that take 4-5 weeks for a sysadmin to assist a de

I think that can be aimed at solving a different problem to the one superficially described. I've seen places that take 4-5 weeks for a sysadmin to assist a developer through how to get a development environment going. That is to say, I've been a sysadmin in a place that chose that approach. Putting the work in with containers or vagrant and a reasonable CI and workflow that just lets people get in front of the codebase and change something is an incredible Godsend and I hope to always have that approach in future. Whether someone actually pushes a fix for something that day should be a side issue.