You tried to be a good little geek. You allowed the hand polished turds that pooped out the end of the last sprint to install themselves, and boom! Grub ‘user error’ not found. Manjaro shit the bed.
Yeah, there are all kinds of ways to hack it, but that isn’t cool. If you wonder why people don’t donate huge amounts of money to your Open-Source project it’s because of this.
Nothing you can do on Github qualifies as testing!
That’s the reality children. Absolutely nothing you can do on Github qualifies as testing. Agile is NOT Software Engineering. TDD is NOT a legitimate development methodology. And finally, testing requires actual physical testing. A team of humans must do it.
Nobody tested this “upgrade.” It has a large blast radius. Blaming Arch or someone “up stream” doesn’t excuse your complete lack of actual testing.
All in all they are trying to do the right thing for Arch. This lack of testing plagues all Linux distros and is an epidemic at Microsoft. Large blast radius problems are constant problem worldwide.
If you think Agile is a legitimate Software Engineering method you shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard even to check email.
Problems like this are completely inexcusable.
I wiped that machine and installed Debian 13.
“Move quickly and break things” is NOT what the software industry needs.
Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.
A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.
Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars
When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.
