Re: [boost] [SVN]Best Practices for developers using SVN

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-03 15:17:21

Volodya,

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>> on Thu Aug 02 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:
>>
> We actually had examples of such proactive release management in past,
> and it worked good, but it's clearly time consuming. So one 
> possible solution is to

For one thing it does not scale. The more important part that you are missing is:

We have zero leverage over library developers.

Let me repeat this:

We have ZERO LEVERAGE over library developers.

Any approach that relies on people doing things when asked is doomed.

>         1. Document the process.
>         2. Distribute it in time -- for example if we have
>         a single 'development' branch, we can record all regressions
>         that appear on the branch and demand that they are fixed
>         in a month, or the offending commit reverted.
>         3. Distribute it over people -- instead of having
>         one release manager doing all the work, we can have
>         "bug masters" that will focus on regressions in a 
>         subset of platforms, or subset of libraries.

There were many documented and distributed processes in the past. Nobody reads the FM. And 
to be honest I can't even blame people.

Thomas

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Thomas Witt
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