> just forgot to add. as eric mentions, it would be helpful to have a
public and
> acknowledged list of companies who use svn. that is one of the things
he uses against
> the change. this would be a major motivation to convince the (dilbert
principle) guy
> who takes this kind of decisions without having an idea, and that
relies mainly on
> what is mainstream and what is not.
Are you sure he's doing that? There are often good reasons to go with
the mainstream, business users are taught in those management training
courses all about early adopters and risk management and so on. Don't
underestimate your opponent just because you think he's technically
ignorant.
> perhaps, it would be easier to list companies who still don't use svn
...
I doubt it somehow... Unless you have a lot of webspace to hold it, and
a lot of time to devote to updating it. Users are coming and going all
the time, so any list that was compiled would be permanently out of
date, Maybe a list of 'high profile' companies that use it would be best
(and easiest to manage :) )
For subversion advocacy, why not create the old comparison matrix
showing the good and bad features of VSS v SVN (and all the other ones).
Obviously this will show up the shortcomings of subversion but that too
is a good thing if said shortcomings get resolved, or for people for who
those issues are a very big deal (don't want them using svn if its not
suitable for them)(I'll help with this as we're thinking of converting
from VSS to SVN at the moment)
Other advocacy tactics to use are to set up a pilot study (which will
only come up with a comparison matrix anyway - see above to help shorten
this), or to use it for one team (effectively the same as the pilot), or
to run it side-by-side with the old system for a while.
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