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blantonl on June 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: We will try to stop fixing bugs in PHP

Spot on. He doesn't want to update his 50+ applications, but he wants to patch PHP and deal with the deployment of that to all the servers that support those 50+ applications. And he admits that he's not a C++ coder.

Sounds like a change management nightmare.

lnguyen on June 22, 2012 [–]

But it's only one change.+

+ Technically true. The scope will be equivalent to 50+ change tickets. And he'll be able to blame someone else for any issues that result.

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