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Configuration Management - lecture 1a:

Introduction and motivation

Literature

  • Babich - chapter 1.
    Read this chapter carefully - it contains many words of wisdome.

Lecture summary:

  • roll call and administratrivia
  • outline and goals of the course
  • examples from outside the software world
  • what are the problems and goals of SCM
  • definition of SCM
  • communication and co-ordination
  • process and perspectives

Quote of the day

Yesterday
All those backups seemed a waste of pay
Now my database has gone away
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly
There's not half the files that used to be
And there's a millstone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed
something wrong
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone
And I long for
yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday
The need for backups seemed so far away
I knew my data was here to stay
Now I believe in yesterday.


Updated October 27, 2003