[Wocky] Adium X 0.89 connection fix deployed
Greg Hudson
ghudson at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 21 03:38:55 EDT 2006
Tonight, Mark deployed a workaround I coded up to allow Adium X 0.89
clients to reliably connect to our Jabber server.
Unfortunately, there was a bug in my code, and the server became
unstable for a couple of hours as a result. I was able to identify
and fix the bug in fairly short order, and Mark deployed the fix
promptly, so all is believed to be well now.
Lessons from this incident:
* This looked like an operational issue at first, but was actually a
client software issue. Even if "nothing has changed" on the
client between working and non-working, we should look for
patterns which indicate a client issue.
* Auto-updates from outside MIT without MIT-internal testing can be
dangerous.
* When Jabber is a production service, we'll need more comprehensive
testing before we deploy server changes.
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