More work babble

Well, as of last night, my developers assured me all the work for my release, scheduled for Friday, would be checked in and good to go when i got in this morning.

Well, that almost happened. Sorta. The one bit I was waiting on yesterday was indeed complete, but in order to test it fully, something else needed to change as well. The developer who's working on that says that it can maybe happen by the end of the day today.

So, i'm sitting, waiting on my PM to make a decision again. I'm good to go. I don't mind not testing the functionality on the stuff that's done but contingent upon the remaining bits. Then again, the part that's hung up is the part that was the whole reason we're doing this release.

The testing liability for the rest of the fixes checked in is pretty minimal- two of them are just minor adjustments to HTML pages, and should take all of a minute apiece to navigate to and verify. A third is a negative case which should have been fixed by some database work- it's to verify that a certain class of user shouldn't be able to see certain content, but since that user class was just added, most of the content hadn't been enabled for it, but a script has since run to turn it all on. This test would probably involve creating a new item and enabling it for views except the new one, then verifying that it wasn't shown. Figure this might take all of a half-hour. There's another fix closely associated with it, and testing one covers the other. The final fix is another negative case, and just requres creating two classes of viewers with the same e-mail address. The rights assignment is probably going to be all messed up in this case, but as long as the site doesn't crash as a result of it, this fix is considered good (the rights for each viewer set is addressed separately). Figure this is, all together, maybe two hours worth of work.

So, i'm giving myself until noon tomorrow. With the vagaries of the build process, that still may not happen.

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Alice, this Wonderland is not all it's cracked up to be. I don't care why the Mad Hatter thinks a raven is like a writing-desk, and would someone please ask the Emperor to put some damn clothes on? The Queen of Hearts will be arriving any minute.

Y'know, sometimes you just fix things when they've gone all swimmy, rather than just patching them up with duct tape, some odd lengths of twine and a few sticks which just happened to lie about and pretending that that was the way they'd always been.

Or else you toss them out and get new. Either the high or the low road works.

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And now for something completely different: in the "American Family Association"'s poll which they intend to present to Congress to demonstrate the numeric force of their right-wing, fundamentalist Christian extremist viewpoint regarding homosexual marriage now shows opposing legalization to be the minority position, with 46.76% of the vote, leading those in favour of legalization by less than a percent (45.82%), with the balance of respondants (7.42%) favouring some sort of recognized civil union short of marriage.

Considering that when i first saw this poll on Monday, nearly 98 percent opposed gay marriage; those of us who feel that the government has no right in legislating with whom we choose to partner, and that there's no reason why any union of consenting adults should be prohibited have certainly let at least one group of bigots hear our voice. At this point, their margin in their own publically unannounced poll is less than that by which George W. Bush lost the last election's popular vote. Kinda makes you want to rename the Moral Majority the Immoral Minority now, doesn't it?

Edit: As of 8:21 a.m. Friday morning, the plurality opinion, by a margin of 46.94-45.34% is in favour of legalization. Bwhahaha!