@nixCraft Occasionally my Senior Design students are able to provide me with a really good bad example.

One of last year's projects was a continuation of that sponsor's previous project. The previous project was greenfield, so there really wasn't a "production" to push to. But last year, the sponsor was actively using the previous year's project. Despite the advice of the faculty member and project manager who I assigned to the student team, the sponsor insisted that the students push to prod so that the sponsor's staff can always use the latest & greatest.

Which included insufficiently-tested code pushed just before the 5-week winter break between semesters.

@nixCraft

I had a department head once who started off as "the geek in the corner" when the company was born. He had a temper, low frustration tolerance, and resented following rules -- even his own.

He would make small changes directly into production, skipping the test server and testing.

His favorite time to succumb to those impulses was late Friday afternoon.

Ah, the Monday morning email shit storm...

@nixCraft Well if that is where “they” set the deadline… no problem, as requested. #push #bye

After all that is what deadlines mean, all or nothing. 🤡

@nixCraft It's a ongoing joke about fixing (and potentially being the cause of the breakage) #wikimedia #mediawiki wikis whilst in the air travelling to events.

https://bash.toolforge.org/quip/AU7VVFGM6snAnmqnK_ug