Configuration Management - lecture 1a:

Introduction and motivation

Literature

• Babich - chapter 1.
  Read this chapter carefully - it contains many words of wisdome.
  Read it after the lecture, but before the exercises.

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.