[Parcissons]

Im in industry automatization- and its usually that the production is a linear problem- in a tree of linear problems. Meaning any station in the production may show problems after the start.

These come in 3 categorys- full stop (machine breaks/quality so bad production cant continue), solvable (machine can produce at reduced rate) - and hidden (quality problem shows down the line).

Hidden are the meanest problems, because you have to traverse back up the tree to the producer of the problem- solve the problem, which may result in new problems - migrating back down the production line.

Try to not see it as a binary problem of release- not release, but more of a very complex longterm graph traversing problem.

[cagenut]

By any chance to you have any good links or books on this kind of thing? So much of continuous deployment winds up sounding remarkably like things industrial automation already has language and studies for.