[TriLUG] emergency website help needed

[Peter Neilson via TriLUG]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:14:06 -0400, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG  
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> Thanks William,
>>
>> I fixed it, and I'll post the solution here and to the Debian forums.
>>
>> An Apache update changed the path format for redirect rules from  
>> relative
>> paths to absolute paths.
>>
>        I sure would like to know their reasoning...
>
>> It was very difficult to track down.

Standard method for accomplishing such a mental (de)feat has been known  
for decades. Here's an instance I saw. 1987, I think.

   Me: You've changed the format. How will the customer read tapes with the  
previous version's files? I can't find it in the specification. Maybe  
there's a separate utility not mentioned here?

   Dev: The customer WON'T WANT to do that.

   Product failed beta test. It could not do that.

But that was back in the Dark Ages. Don't we now have in-house use tests,  
Agile Scrummage, etc.?