RE: Off Topic but About Code managment

[Jason Sicotte]

Daniel,

Some things you might find useful in your quest:

"Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development"
[http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/acme/branching/]
"Software Release Methodology" [ISBN 0136365647]

The latter source goes over some of the basic of source control management
such as: recommended polocies for branching, braching vs productivity,
product vs project tagging.  However, this is just one chapter out of the
book, so don't expect too deep a discussion here.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of sparky
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:40 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Off Topic but About Code managment
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have monitored this list on and off for about 6 years and 
> have never written to it.
> 
> I am in, for the first time, in the spot where I must manage 
> the code repository rather than just use CVS as an end user.
> 
> What I have is not a CVS specific question per se, but CVS is 
> the software I am most failure with.
> 
> What I am looking for is some body of articles, books or what 
> ever I can get my hands on that will help me understand the 
> "Why" (not on a pedestrian level) of code management, the 
> 'gott-chas' of various choices, all of which all are more 
> than likely valid choices with their own set of  'gott-chas'.
> 
> I guess what I am after is more management of code rather 
> than CVS. What are the questions I need to answer in order to 
> effectively and reasonably manage a code base without 
> shooting off my toes? (Or at least choosing which toes I am 
> willing to lose if I must. ;-)
> 
> That being the case this seemed to be a reasonable place to 
> ask my first question.
> 
>     1) Books?
>     2) Articles?
>     3) Newsgroups?
>     4) Old publications?
> 
> Apolgies for being off topic
> 
> Daniel Avila