Mark Martin writes: > So how many times have people suggested over the years that the case > management system might be benefited by being hosted on a SCM? What were > the arguments against? Or is the current system a SCM (of sorts)?
Actually, it is hosted on a SCM of sorts. It's SCCS plus some old shell scripts, but it's really a management system. Moving it over to a Mercurial workspace, where those with case submission privileges (licensees, interns, and members) have write access to the repository sounds like a fairly good idea to me, though it does have some pitfalls (at least with the current usage scheme). What you'd really want is some sort of case management system that can allocate case identifiers and manage the materials for those cases without the "fake merge" overhead that a single SCM-type repository would otherwise have. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
