From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c8a1ddc13ecb354 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "James A. Squire" Subject: Re: Configuration Management for Ada on Unix Date: 1996/06/05 Message-ID: <31B5E734.2582@csehp3.mdc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158644838 sender: Ada programming language references: <9605301407.AA03821@most> comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: MDA Avionics Tools & Processes mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.01 9000/715) Date: 1996-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Kingdon wrote: > > To me, one of the aspects of a CM product should be that one of the many > > objects it operates on is called "baseline" - and this should be a > > separate construct apart from branches or labels or whatever. It's > > cleaner and safer. > > If I recall correctly, last time the term "baseline" was discussed on > comp.software.config-mgmt, people could not agree on what it meant. > So I'm not sure that using that word would decrease confusion rather > than increasing it. I can cure that - bring Software Quality into the project, and terms like "baseline" will get defined REAL fast, either at gunpoint or voluntarily. Admittedly there are different kinds of baselines and what some of those nuances are is often up for grabs, though it has more to do with "when" you do them than with "what" goes in them. Actually, there is another way to clear up the confusion. Imagine what you would need to do to reproduce something if it got accidentally deleted in its entirety. All of a sudden you become motivated real quick to figure out exactly what a baseline is and what it should contain. The fact that a small group of people could not agree on what something means does not diminish the importance of that "something", nor does it make tools like sccs, rcs, et. al. qualify as configuration management tools. -- James Squire MDA Avionics Tools & Processes ja_squire@csehp3.mdc.com Opinions expressed here are my own and NOT my company's "one of these days I'm going to better myself by going to Knight school" "You'll be a web knight instead of a web page!"