<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Bastien -<br class=""><div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2020, at 3:37 AM, Bastien <<a href="mailto:bzg@bzg.fr" class="">bzg@bzg.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">I think Andy's take was the report was "on point but a<br class="">bit boring."<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Isn't this the very definition of "maintainance"? :)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">If I may use this tangent to open a new discussion: how can we change</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">the overall perception of maintainance as "boring"?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Depends what your definition, understanding & experience with “exciting” is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For instance, recent public events here in the States:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1/ - the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the currency, a quiet & relatively unknown bank auditing office in the US Treasury) & the Federal Reserve publicly announcing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that the CEO of CitiBank should look for another post. See WSJ 2020-09-14</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2/ - CitiBank being levied a US$400M fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reading just a smidge between the lines here, I’m willing to go out on a limb & guess that inadequate software maintenance practices were involved…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You pick as to boring or exciting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reminds me of the childhood sight gag.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Q: What’s this (as you hold your hand with finges pointed up)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A: A dead this (as you flip the hand over with fingers pointed down).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- David</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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