Mensch mit starkem Datendrang • Artisanal Open Source • latenz-unverträglich • ::) • he/him
![screenshot of the first page of my “Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version” blog post:
Recently, during a production incident response, I guessed the root cause of an outage correctly within less than an hour (cool!) and submitted a fix just to rule it out, only to then spend many hours fumbling in the dark because we lacked visibility into version numbers and rollouts… 😞
This experience made me think about software versioning again, or more specifically about build info (build versioning, version stamping, however you want to call it) and version reporting. I realized that for the i3 window manager, I had solved this problem well over a decade ago, so it was really unexpected that the problem was decidedly not solved at work.
In this article, I’ll explain how 3 simple steps (Stamp it! Plumb it! Report it!) are sufficient to save you hours of delays and stress during incident response.
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Mensch mit starkem Datendrang • Artisanal Open Source • latenz-unverträglich • ::) • he/him