[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

[Mike Rylander]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd at commandprompt.com>wrote:

>
> On 02/20/2013 11:26 AM, Mike Rylander wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org
>> <mailto:klussier at masslnc.org>> wrote:
>>
>
>  So, why have ESI involved at all?  Besides the fact that we create a
>> significant portion of the code, and that it benefits us as much as
>> anyone to have a more stable Evergreen, there is a need for ongoing,
>> active leadership in QA.  The fact is that it has not materialized yet,
>> so we're looking for a way to make that a maintainable proposition for
>> the community's benefit.  That means ongoing, deep integration with both
>> developer and user communities.  And that is not something that we can
>> expect from OmniTI or any other organization that is not plugged into
>> those communities.  Could some other organization step into that role,
>> and provide years of ongoing QA support?  Perhaps so, but ESI exists
>> today and has the Evergreen expertise needed to avoid long (and costly)
>> ramp-up time.
>>
>>
> There are two very good reasons for people to not use a software's origin
> vendor. This is not a reflection of that vendor as it is a reflection of
> any software community.
>
> 1. The origin is not going to be an expert in every technology required to
> run Evergreen. They are an expert *IN* their software (in this case
> Evergreen) which is a very different thing.
>
> 2. An outside vendor is objective. It can look at code, architecture,
> queries, models and say, "Woah... what were they (whoever they are)
> thinking here?"
>
>
>
I had just such a moment, and cleaned up large a pile of such problems,
very recently ... odd.

In all seriousness, though, ESI is made up of those "people" of which you
speak.  We're no more the "origin vendor" of Evergreen than you are of
Postgres, with PG committers on staff.  And, again, you're still only
addressing the "audit" phase, which is important, even critical, but does
little for us Evergreeners five or 10 years from now.

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Mike Rylander
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