--- John Barstow <John_Barstow@gfsg.co.nz> wrote:
> > What I don't know is how to enforse programmers to
> update and commit
> > their changes on a regular basis. I asked already
> about "watch" and
> > because it yet to come I wanna know how people
> work. Now my team is
> > working with VSS and a version builder detects
> whether someone forgot to
> > check-in files just before building. Unfortunately
> it happens pretty
> > frequently. How to prevent forgetting?
>
> We have the following in place:
>
> 1) A scheduled task or logon script does an 'svn
> update' every morning.
> This ensures that the developers are always working
> on the most recent
> version.
>
> 2) An automated build routine that builds and tests
> the checked-in code
> every day. If the developers are not checking in
> their code, they will keep
> getting bug reports. If you need a stick, the
> system can mail the
> build/test results to a manager every so often.
>
> This can help establish the discipline. Once the
> developers get into the
> habit, it's not really an issue. I check-in my own
> code multiple times a
> day.
It sounds to me that there's a very large chance that
peoples' builds break due to the "Checkin Often" and
the "Update Often" policies. How do you resolve this?
Where I am currently, broken builds occurred so often
that I updated only when I was sure the build works
(no more than once every other day).
Thanks,
Noel
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Received on Tue Dec 10 02:59:27 2002