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Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" (yieldcode.blog)

submitted 4 months ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the biggest issue. Devs will make mistakes while coding. It's the job of the tester to catch them. I'm sure some mid-level manager said "let's increase the deployment speed by self-signing our drivers" and forced a poor schmuck to do this. They skipped internal testing and bypassed Microsoft testing.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That mid-level manager also has the conflicting responsibility to ensure the necessary process is happening to reliably release, and that a release can’t happen unless that process happened. They goofed, as did their manager who prized cheapness and quickness over quality

Let them all from the CEO down suffer the consequences that a free market supposedly deals