[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add ENVIRONMENT to hostnamectl

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" 

> On 07/08/2014 07:31 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] Tom Gundersen
> >
> >> Patches look good. Only found one tiny nit. We should come up with a
> >> better name though, feels wrong that the name is very generic (and
> >> clashes with other uses), whilst the usage is quite specific (limited
> >> to "testing", "staging", "production").
> > Surely at least qa and dev should go onto that list.  (You generally
> > want more than one dev environment too, often one or more per
> > developer.)
> 
> These days people usually use only 3 tier level ( used to be four back
> in the day ) as in Development and Integration is done the same tier
> while Staging and Production are separated tiers altogether. We could
> extend that and include the fourth tier missing tier ( as in
> Integration ) as "optional" for those that prefer 4 tier layer over 3
> tier but people moved away form that model to the 3 tier one.

That's not my experience.  Some do what you say, some elide one of them,
some do multiple levels of production, some add one or more tiers, in
particular when you need to do things like «this test needs to run in
this part of production so we can collect data».

I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all here.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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