On revision control workflows

Chris Siebenmann wrote another really thought-provoking piece on how sysadmins and developers use revision control differently. There’s a couple of things that I really agree with, and a couple that I think are pretty telling of systems administration as a profession. I think, in many ways, that the way developers do things is correct, and the way system administrators do things isn’t correct. This isn’t because developers are, in general, smarter or more regimented — that’s an apples-to-oranges comparison that I’m not even going to begin to approach. But there are some limitations in how developers test that makes their … Continue Reading →