Victoria Shinder: A vendor patch is a change nobody on your team reviewed, and it ships anyway
Every release process guards the code it writes. Almost none guard the code that arrives on somebody else's schedule.
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Writes for Dev News Daily on the parts of software work that are not code: process, release discipline and what teams actually do with a change.
Every release process guards the code it writes. Almost none guard the code that arrives on somebody else's schedule.