[dba-VB] SCRUM: Northwind .NET Product BackLog Planning Game...

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 06:52:54 CDT 2009


Not to mention the fact that many of us don't use source control at all 
on a daily basis.  It is another thing to come up to speed on.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com



Mark Breen wrote:
> Hello Shamil,
> As a member of a four person team a couple of years ago, we had some issues
> with source control.  At the time, there was pressure to start work on the
> project so we neglected the issue of centralized source control.   It became
> a major issue to the project and was one of the reasons why the project was
> only a limited success.  Four years later, it still remains difficult to get
> access to the code on that project.
>
> If we can iron on the centralized source control now, and make it seamless,
> I believe that it would be the best choice.
>
> FYI.  We tried three different systems / storage locations, what we found on
> our project was that some aspects worked better for some sites, (we had US,
> Ireland and Germany).  The German guys really loved their solution but of
> course they had LAN access to the server.  The US guys were happy enough
> with the German solution but it was slow.  But the Irish guys had some
> routing problems that meant that it took 30 mins to check out a small
> solution.  ----  The point being here that the chosen solution must work
> well for all team members.
>
> My personal opinion is also that if source control is quick and fast, it
> becomes second nature and is not an obstacle to smooth work, what ever
> architecture we choose should be practiced a few times by all team members
> so that we can all check in and out quickly and without fear in our hearts.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> 2009/3/17 Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>- Hide quoted text -
>
>
>   
>> Hi Mike and SCRUM team,
>>
>> If BAZAAR needs Python interpreter I'd not use it (at least now as we all
>> need to learn a lot of new stuff) - on first glance I understood BAZZAR can
>> be used locally by running command line utilites  but for those utilities
>> simple batch files should be possible to create (e.g. I used CVS this way),
>> and if used via Lauchpad then somehow via web interface with upload/download
>> and again coordinate locally using command line utils via .bat files...
>>
>> Let's not tie ourselves with Python if BAZAAR needs it? Although if Python
>> interpreter and Bazaar installation is as simple as unzipping some files and
>> setting some runtime environment variables then why not try to use them?
>>
>> Source control is desirable as it sets some boundaries to keep code well
>> organized but in fact I suppose we can work without any source control
>> system for this first project as there shoudln't be that much source files
>> in it to share...
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> --
>> Shamil
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Mike Mattys" <mmattys at rochester.rr.com>
>> To: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" <mcp2004 at mail.ru>,"Discussion concerning Visual
>> Basic and related programming issues." <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:01:46 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [dba-VB]SCRUM: Northwind .NET Product BackLog Planning Game...
>>
>>     
>>> Hmm, Python. Heard a lot, never tried.
>>> I'll have to download it and see if it runs.
>>>       
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