On 7/20/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Toby Thain wrote:
> >
> >
> > Right. Time down, time to restore, and all because the admin's finger
> > slipped. Which is the lesser of the two evils?
>
> It's the admin's job to be able to fix it, whether it broke because of a
> user error, his own error, or a hardware failure. Besides, the admin
> can _always_ 'rm -rf' the whole repository - that shouldn't even be part
> of this discussion since it doesn't change one way or the other.
>
> > But seriously. The *first time* you see junk in the repo, you start
> > educating your users. If they're not educable, perhaps they're not
> > competent to be doing what they're apparently doing.
>
> If your system relies on users never making mistakes, either you don't
> have many users or you should expect it to be very fragile.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell@gmail.com
>
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I work in a financial institution. Users make mistakes. We correct
them, but the original error stays in the database, forever.
bye,
Erik.
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Received on Fri Jul 20 20:16:18 2007