Re: [SAGE] Programmers as.. sysadmins..

["Sam Johnston" <samj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 30, 2008 11:15 PM, Christophe Kalt <sage-members@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i think the problem is more of clear job responsability.

Either you're a programmer, or a sysadmin.
People who are trying to be both usually think of one of
their responsability as primary, and the other one suffers
from this.  I think that most of what you've seen are
probably cases of programmers having to do some SA work
because they have the skills and someone need to get the job
done.

Let's not forget that there can be conflicting priorities for the two roles as well - a quick and dirty apache installation for development does not make for a stable production service for example, and a 'one off' library installation to satisfy a linker error does not make for easy change management. Conversely, a stripped back SOE can be great for availability and manageability but a world of hurt for a programmer.

Sam