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> seems super normal and fine to ship a feature over the weekend if it goes through the regular CI gates - it's tested, peer reviewed, been QAd in staging, etc.
by kodablah 7y ago
> seems super normal and fine to ship a feature over the weekend if it goes through the regular CI gates - it's tested, peer reviewed, been QAd in staging, etc.
Multiple of these processes you listed often require humans. You either are asking them to do this during the weekend, which is bad, or you gave them ample time during the week meaning you're ok with steps needed on weekdays, so you can do that for the last step too, with full staff present.
(bugs and urgencies notwithstanding, but that doesn't appear to be what we're discussing)
- eska 7y agoDepends. If you have a full CD/CI system and use feature flags, you can definitely push such an update into production, having the feature disabled by default but enabled if the requests have special attributes set, or for a specified group of people (A/B).
- kodablah 7y agoMy comment is unrelated to what you can do, it's about what you should do. If you can afford weekday humans in the other parts of the process, you can afford a weekday release.