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by AstralStorm 2616 days ago
It will be noticed - by angry users. Which is why untested continuous deployment is madness.

When you do checkpoint regular releases done often, you get a chance to smoketest and block a release. Automated smoke tests only go so far in fixing this - if you could cheaply, reliably and completely fully automate testing, everyone would already do that.

About the only way to do continuous deployment is to not deploy into production but use lagged deployment practice...
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jstimpfle 2616 days ago
Yes - in my case the "users" are just my colleagues (and yes, they could get angry, but the feedback can be worth it).

I believe that "trunk" is not commonly meant to be immediately deployed to users. But, maybe things are different in the web world, where "deploy" is as easy as "upload to server"?

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