Configuration Management - lecture 4:

Collaboration in-depth

Literature

• Asklund: chapter 2 & 5.

Study these chapters. Make sure that you fully understand:
• the different cases of distributed development
• the examples of repository architectures
• White, chapter 10.

Read this chapter as background material - you might want to skip ClearCase-specific stuff. Focus on:
• the three scenarios
• the four technological solutions

Lecture summary

• definition of distributed development
• distributed development in trad. CM
• strategies for distributed development
• cases for distributed development ...
• ... and their characteristics

Hand-outs

3 slides pr. page, 6 slides pr. page

Quote of the day

Now the whole earth used only one language, with few words. On the occasion of a migration from the east, men discovered a plain in the land of Shinar, and settled there. Then they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, burning them well." So they used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city with a tower whose top shall reach the heavens (thus making a name for ourselves), so that we may not be scattered all over the earth." Then the Lord came down to look at the city and tower which human beings had built. The Lord said, "They are just one people and they all have the same language. If this is what they can do as a beginning, then nothing that they resolve to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there make such a babble of their language that they will not understand one another's speech." Thus the Lord dispersed them from there all over the earth, so that they had to stop building the city. (Book of Genesis, 11:1-8).