Pet Peeves

We all have pet peeves.  You know, something that really irritates you when other may just shrug it off.  I thought I would list some of the pet peeves of the deployment team:

• Being asked to remove the old version of ABLearning.xxx.yyy when in the Add/Remove program lists it is called Fred.  This causes no end of trouble.  Can we make the names consistent?  If you are installing ABLearning.xxx.yyy, make sure that the uninstall is called the same thing.
  
• Seeing people use a new  deployment package when they migrate the same code to a new environment.  DeCo was set up so that the same deployment package could be used to deploy to UAT and Production.  If the package is named properly it is easy to find and easy to re-use.  (Plus it already has the items attached.  Saves time.)
  
• Seeing people use the same deployment package over and over and over and over again.  If you are deploying something new, you need a new deployment package.  Re-using an old deployment package seriously confuses people when they look at the history of other deployments that may have been using the same package.
  
• People putting everything into one zip file.  It is so much better for everyone if you match the number of zip files with the number of items.  (Oh, the converse is also true, there is no need to add every single file separately, they can be grouped together in a zip file.)
  
• Being told that performance is "slow", but no one can actually tell us what "fast" is.
  
• Being asked "when is it going to be fixed", when I don't even know what is broken.
  
• People disagreeing with me.

OK, that last one is a joke.  Sort of.