Dylan, Thank you for clarifying that difference. That was sloppy of me to describe that as a DBA operation.
-- Emma On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Dylan Hardison <dy...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 7, 2017, at 19:35, Emma Humphries <e...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > > The first batch of intermittent bugs to close has 5,130 tickets. I have a > > script to close these, but to close these without bug spam requires DBA > > intervention. > > This is not a correct statement. DBAs do not modify bugzilla data. > Instead we have some functionality that directly manipulates the data > model, which then updates the DB. > We have batch processes that can make these changes without sending email, > but this is far and away from > having a DBA intervention. > > I chose to point this out for two reasons -- the first being it would > deeply concern me, if I was an outsider, to have an important > production app subject to a process of "the DBA goes and changes some > tables" and secondly because it would imply that responsibility > of the contents to the database lies with operations. It should absolutely > never be the case that we ask a DBA to change the contents of the bugzilla > database > without going through the application's model/business logic layer (and > certainly not without the involvement of the bmo module owners). > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-tree-management mailing list > dev-tree-managem...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tree-management > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
