[mb-users] Digest of a personal thread that Fuchs started (Was: Uff ...)

[Lauri Watts]

On 8/20/06, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's clearly true. But I didn't suggest running the test server
> in tandem. (At least, I wasn't trying to :))
>
> I suggested that _after_ all the testing is done on the test server,
> instead of just applying the feature to the main server, we _add_ it
> to the main server in parallel to the old one. This is no more
> dangerous, and actually safer than what we do now: after testing on
> the test server we just apply everything.
>
> With a gradual "apply" we can start using it with more and more
> people, solving issues as they are discovered, until it replaces the
> old version, at which point we remove the old system. This is the way
> Yahoo is upgrading their webmail interface.

I think this is a fabulous idea.

I was thinking earlier today, that one of the advantages of releasing
actual software, is that people can try it and if it really is broken
for them (hey, stuff happens), they can downgrade, and that's really a
problem with a web application, and that's a very frustrating
experience from an end-user perspective.

This is a way to sidestep that issue, provide much more real world
testing still in a controlled basis.

+1 (actually, about +42 to this one)

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts