Comment by ok_dad
8 months ago
“There’s no systemic problem.”
Meanwhile, the operators were allowed to leave a parameter blank and the default was to set a deletion time bomb.
Not systemic my butt! That’s a process failure, and every process failure like this is a systemic problem because the system shouldn’t allow a stupid error like this.
If you're arguing that that was the systemic problem, then it's been fully fixed, as the manual operation was removed and so validation can no longer be bypassed.
I think you glossed over the importance of the term process failure.
The idea is that this one particular form missing the appropriate care is indicative of a wider lack of discipline amongst the engineers building it.
Definitionally, you cannot solve a process problem by fixing a specific bug.
"we removed the system that can enable a process failure" fixes the process failure. I didn't misunderstand anything.
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