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3 points by akkartik 2279 days ago | link | parent

I agree that we should hold ourselves to some standard about not breaking Anarki for each other.

It's our job, yours and mine and that of other long-time participants, to explain the norms that we have here. And to do it in a nice way, realizing that what's obvious to us isn't necessarily obvious to newcomers.

This is a pretty non-standard repo where anybody can make changes, so it's understandable that a newcomer may think stability is not important. We have to articulate precisely what sorts of stability are necessary and what we don't consider important. It's a tough job. So I really hope you stick around to help us out :)

I'm actually curious how you run a production service on Anarki. Everytime I ever tried to do that I would maintain a cutout in between that was wholly in my control, and decide what patches should flow from Anarki to it.



2 points by hjek 2278 days ago | link

> So I really hope you stick around to help us out :)

Definitely!

> I'm actually curious how you run a production service on Anarki. Everytime I ever tried to do that I would maintain a cutout in between that was wholly in my control, and decide what patches should flow from Anarki to it.

Usually I'm trying out the latest commits on a local laptop before doing git pull on the server. Works fine. If it's broken for some reason, then I'll just do a `git reset --hard [known-good-revision]`, because the `www` folder with all the news data is outside the git tree anyway so it stays as it is (and no-one have yet been changing the data format, so that's not an issue either.)

I find it a lot simpler to manage than for example Wordpress (although Wordpress on the other hand has tons more featuers and plugins).

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