RE: best production practice?

[Jim.Hyslop]

bobby temper wrote:
> What i meant is that, we have the code running on a 
> production machine. Now 
> and then, that code gets changed, and sometimes, it's content 
> gets out of 
> sync with whats on production (ie. for example. someone edit 
> directly on 
> production, for a hotfix (i know this is bad, but fast for 
> changing a simple 
> text, link, etc...) and forget to do the changes in cvs.
This practise *MUST* stop. Do whatever it takes to make it stop, otherwise
one day you *will* get burned, and badly. "Changing a simple text" is no
excuse.

Problem solved.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )