Re: Who should release to production ?

From: Myron Wintonyk <mwintony_at_med.ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:51:15 +1000
Message-ID: <3A9B2433.96535DBB@med.ualberta.ca>

"Should" is an interesting word. I would say no. However, I'm currently working
for a company that allows developers to move things into production. It is amazing how many times they have to do another emergency move into production to fix the bad code they just installed. I've never seen this before, as
I ALWAYS seen structured approaches to production updates.

Having someone other than the developer move the code into production seems to give them that little extra incentive to make certain the code works right the
first time. Otherwise, they have to admit to someone else that they had a problem.

Tab wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but can anyone please tell
> me their opinions on this issue:
>
> Should developers be allowed to make direct releases of their code to a
> production environment (after testing), or should decisions on such releases
> be left to the DBA/System Admin(s) ?
Received on Mon Feb 26 2001 - 21:51:15 CST