Submitted 10 months ago by Dankry@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
There’s a lesson to be learned here: don’t push a massive update close to the holidays because, ya know, you might break federation and go on vacation for a week.
I mean, no one has forced any admins to deploy a new version. But yeah, this is an annoying one.
Devs break federation.
You: here’s why it’s everyone else’s fault
It’s valid to point out when amateurs do amateur stuff, in the hopes they one day become experts.
Backup before upgrade. If you can’t, don’t be the first to upgrade. Have a test instance.
And if all of that sounds like too much, then just accept downtime as a lifestyle.
Why would users do this?
The Lemmy.today instance owner got federation working again by doing a database query:
There’s a lesson to be learned here
The lesson is don’t trust a fucking tankie to be able to run a development project
Wow a useless ad-hominem “argument”…
Nobody with actual cognitive capacity ends up as a tankie, and the main dev quite literally is a self-proclaimed tankie and pro-Stalinist
That’s ridiculous and you are letting your brain be clouded by your political views.
I don’t think any political stance can guarantee that one would (not) make a fuck up at any given time. The shit they do is lit, it lets me consume that post and then answer you, us being from different volunteer-run instances. Give these guys some credit. At least, they put their code where their mouth is and let us all use it.
In the language of 1900’s socialists, I can’t care whose gold in a cart that is, if I can appropriate it to serve our means.
If that’s not the case, we all can fork it. But I doubt you or I have enough spite to compete with them and continuously support it. With all problems, if they haven’t started their project, we couldn’t have these nice places, so even though I disagree with them, I can’t really devalue the labor they put in there, for everyone’s pleasure.
But we should trust an incel?
Curious.
Youre on that tankies platform right now, bro.
You love tankies or something? Using tankie-ware like you are?
If you don’t like their way of developing, then do it yourself, cunt.
Remember this comment the next time you say you dislike a movie, book, game or food. If you don’t like it, do it yourself cunt
Well then, take your beloved capitalism and get the hell out of here. There are lots of profit driven social media platforms that you could try out.
Why are you even bothering to post here, fucking hypocrite. Go cry on your nazi substack.
Yeah this smells like the Friday evening bad push, but on a yearly scale 😁.
It’s been one week since you looked at me Cocked your head to the side and said, “I’m angry”
It was supposed to be a new year gift for all of us.
I am confused but it seems most other instances besides feddit.de works quite well. I moved my account because the federation on feddit was (is?) broken. But yeah this was a major change and I guess most instances are sidecar projects and not professionally hosted nor maintained. I would definitely pay for a proper hosted and maintained Lemmy instance.
rglullis@communick.news 10 months ago
There is also a lesson in implementing proper tests. During these holidays I started to play a bit more with Rust and went on to look at Lemmy’s backend code. Not a single unit test in sight…
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
We all await your commit containing all those simple unit tests with bated breath.
rglullis@communick.news 10 months ago
I want to work an issue that is open since 2020, but I can only justify dropping all my other work for that if I have enough paying customers interested in some new feature. So, help me get 50 customers to my “all in one” hosting service and I will start dedicate a week to it, which should be more than enough time for even a Rust newbie like me to submit a proper PR to that issue. Ok?
JGrffn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair, I’ve yet had a job that actually pulls off unit testing. Most either don’t bother or just go for the grunt work bare minimum to force pass tests. Most friends in my field have had pretty much the same experience. Unit tests can be just a chore with little to no real benefit. Maybe an opensource project that actually cares about its code can pull it off, but I wouldn’t bat an eye if they never get to it.
rglullis@communick.news 10 months ago
If you go through the comments, you will see that the devs talk about an issue with the logic in the for loop, which “may be stopping before it should”. Writing a couple of test cases that check whether this is true or not should be trivial.
I’d expect at the very least some type of regression tests to be implemented for every bug that makes into production, to avoid cases like this one where the developers spend weeks figuring out whether their patches even fix the bug in the first place.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m surprised that’s your experience. I’ve worked 4 software engineering jobs now, and every single project has had well done unit test suites.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
What kind of job do you have, making websites?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Same. Every team talks a good game about unit testing but in nearly 20 years I’ve yet to see a single worthwhile test in a company’s code base.