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Why not use the git SHA? Because you want your version numbers to make semantic sense. Your entire team intuitively understands that version 4137 is more recen
by mechanical_fish 12y ago
Why not use the git SHA?
Because you want your version numbers to make semantic sense. Your entire team intuitively understands that version 4137 is more recent than version 4134, that version 3527 is in the distant past, and that going from version 4138 to version 4137 is a sensible rollback, whereas going from version 4138 to version 4136 is either a mistake or a response to a major failure of QA.
Similarly, resist the urge to name servers generically. "There's something wrong with web-347!" is a sentence that you can shout across a crowded ops war room, whereas "web-129.22.8.44" or "web-a781bc23" or "instance i347bd944" are much harder to pronounce and much easier to typo.