Re: [Gnu-arch-users] may I pick your brains?

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:03:36PM -0500, Stefanie Tellex wrote:
> I don't think this one is valid.  The only development style the manager
> cares about is the one his team actually uses.  In a corporate
> environment, I think that's most often centralized development.

Maybe that's true for small companies, but e.g. my company has about fifteen
zillion development groups of one sort of another, and it's fairly common for
separate groups (in _different countries_) to somehow collaborate for a
while.  Usually this involves bunging up a tar file on an ftp site somewhere,
which is a bit of a pain; it'd be nice if there was a better way (and for
such situations, arch seems almost ideal)!

Because the infrastructure is often a bit creaky, especially when it comes to
such new-fangled ideas as `network access', arch's extreme flexibility in
dealing with archive access should be a huge advantage.

> Arch's decentralized features are still worth talking about, but only in
> the context of centralized development.  (eg, you can branch the tree on an
> offline laptop and merge back later.)

Of course I do the `offline development' thing too, to work at home; if doing
so was any less convenient, I probably wouldn't even bother, which has got to
be an attractive thing for a manager!

-Miles
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