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§ ita § - Apr 12, 2003 8:49:45 am PDT #3755 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

CVS itself has acted as a block to development

What's transparent to you is the jiggety jig jig Jon and I did around each other when he was coding and I was spot-fixing. Lack of CVS also acted as a block to development, and in addition to that, could undo or break bits of development in progress.

Zoe, who is this Nora you keep talking about?


Dana - Apr 12, 2003 9:24:40 am PDT #3756 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Zoe seems to believe that Nora (Diedre, I'm assuming) did "database checking".

Zoe Ann "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Apr 11, 2003 10:22:48 am EDT


Zoe Ann - Apr 12, 2003 9:26:06 am PDT #3757 of 10000
Mathair & Athair beo.

Whoever she was who posted to say she had been helping out with the databases.


§ ita § - Apr 12, 2003 9:29:48 am PDT #3758 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Zoe, you're mistaken. There was no "database checking", and as much as I love both help and Nora, the two didn't intersect.

You'll have to make the thesis of your Nora Fan Club something different, I fear.


Zoe Ann - Apr 12, 2003 10:09:06 am PDT #3759 of 10000
Mathair & Athair beo.

OK. Someone did make the claim over on People's Forum. I didn't realise it was contraversial. Shall I retract the applause?


Dana - Apr 12, 2003 10:23:22 am PDT #3760 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Could you provide a link to the post you're referring to? I don't remember seeing it.


Zoe Ann - Apr 12, 2003 10:29:32 am PDT #3761 of 10000
Mathair & Athair beo.

No. I checked back to try and find it but couldn't. There is one deleted post which could be the same one.

I didn't halucinate the post, I recall reading it.

What is the point I am missing here please?


Michele T. - Apr 12, 2003 12:18:18 pm PDT #3762 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

The point is that ita does all the database work.

Which could, in itself, become a problem. Not that ita isn't a goddess, but that, as the demands of the site grow, ita can't scale.


P.M. Marc - Apr 12, 2003 12:19:54 pm PDT #3763 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Not that ita isn't a goddess, but that, as the demands of the site grow, ita can't scale.

I suppose clones are right out...

ita, does Jon have the keys in case of emergency?


§ ita § - Apr 12, 2003 1:43:41 pm PDT #3764 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita, does Jon have the keys in case of emergency?

Jon has the mental keys (PHP, and working on SQL), but not the literal keys.

So far things are segmented thus:

  • Jon and I have access to the test site, code, and database.
  • I have access to trouble ticket submission
  • I have access to production code and database

This might later be moot, but part of the problem is how stuff is segmented. I have more keys than I want, because of how the passwords are set up. I don't want anything that buts onto the financial having the account stuff -- that's all Jesse. And the keys to the production code ARE those keys.

There needs, IMO, to be a separation between the tech and the account admin (CC info, etc). Because I'm already leery of how much I've had to blur the lines, I'm hesitant to propagate that.

Perhaps, in the not too distant future, that can be remedied.

And no, I don't scale. Not at all.