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I fully agree with you that they should have put out a post-mortem, that's what I was expecting as well, when I clicked the link. I disagree on it being a non-a

I fully agree with you that they should have put out a post-mortem, that's what I was expecting as well, when I clicked the link. I disagree on it being a non-apology however, since the sentence below, quoted from the article, seems like an apology to me. > This is the second similar incident this year. We want to apologize for the inconvenience these events have had on our developers and their users.

cflewis 6y ago
It’s not much of an apology because the final paragraphs try to push any future responsibility onto the SDK consumers by saying they should make sure they are updating as fast as FB would like them to. It’s an odd addendum to put in and appears ominous to me.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
  If they want to push that responsibility they should do it officially rather than as a suggestion. The company I work at has a concept called a "build horizon." The rule is that clients have to be updated within the horizon. Internal services do not have to consider internal clients older than the horizon, and may break them arbitrarily. In effect this means that even the least with it internal clients rarely let their internal releases languish more than about half the length of the horizon, because of the associated risks of missing the cutoff. There are many similar successful concepts that cap the maintenance window that services must tolerate, while at the same time giving developers enough forewarning to understand what is expected of them.
user982 6y ago
Wanting to do something isn't the same as doing it.
- mastazi 6y ago
  Are you saying that because the author said "I want to apologize" instead of "I apologize"? I don't remember how this phenomenon is called but basically in English and other Indo-European languages there are expressions that don't really modify the meaning of a sentence, another common example is "you know, I think I'm going to have a sandwich" vs. "I'm going to have a sandwich" - the two sentences have the same meaning, the speaker is not really asking you whether or not you know that they want a sandwich. This might be confusing at first, depending on your linguistic background.

cflewis 6y ago

It’s not much of an apology because the final paragraphs try to push any future responsibility onto the SDK consumers by saying they should make sure they are updating as fast as FB would like them to. It’s an odd addendum to put in and appears ominous to me.

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
If they want to push that responsibility they should do it officially rather than as a suggestion. The company I work at has a concept called a "build horizon." The rule is that clients have to be updated within the horizon. Internal services do not have to consider internal clients older than the horizon, and may break them arbitrarily. In effect this means that even the least with it internal clients rarely let their internal releases languish more than about half the length of the horizon, because of the associated risks of missing the cutoff. There are many similar successful concepts that cap the maintenance window that services must tolerate, while at the same time giving developers enough forewarning to understand what is expected of them.

user982 6y ago

Wanting to do something isn't the same as doing it.

mastazi 6y ago
Are you saying that because the author said "I want to apologize" instead of "I apologize"? I don't remember how this phenomenon is called but basically in English and other Indo-European languages there are expressions that don't really modify the meaning of a sentence, another common example is "you know, I think I'm going to have a sandwich" vs. "I'm going to have a sandwich" - the two sentences have the same meaning, the speaker is not really asking you whether or not you know that they want a sandwich. This might be confusing at first, depending on your linguistic background.