>>Wow, you can keep track of 200 issues? Most people can only keep >>track of 7 according to psychological tests. Just reread your post. I was going to say someone told me the human brain breaks down after 5 elements. so if you are building interfaces - if you have 5 things to look at people can handle and understand those 5 things at once. As soon as you start to get more - it just looks like a bunch of noise and retention and understanding is low.
my point? i dunno. I personally use the human engineering bit. and it breaks down as soon as someone else starts developing with me on a project. I have been looking for a simple, easy to implement source control manager. I just can't decide exactly what I want - AND find the system that does it for free. I'll keep looking. To defend Mark's position - I think what he is saying is - if you work in a consistent and systematic manner that IS an effective method of source control. You don't need to track 200 things at once - because in the scope of performing a task you rarely multitask like that. I mean what do you want in a source control system. Revision Management, File Locking / Revision Branching, Distribution builds? You guys are the pros - you tell me. Revision Management is easy enough. Name the file with its version information. ie index [1.001.001].cfm File locking index [eric][1.001.002].cfm Branching index [mark][1.001.002.2].cfm Builds? maybe a batch file? which creates a distribution build? build_app.bat copy index [1.001.001].cfm build_001/index.cfm etc. Just thinking aloud. meaning structured work flow - means controlled source. and I don't think fundamentally its any more complicated than that. Eric From: Dave Babbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: This feature should never have been uploaded!" or Version Control Systems, Anyone? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:49:10 -0400 If I took that psychological test, I would probably score 2 out of 7. Let's just say that my manual implemented issue control mechanism increases that by a factor of 50. -----Original Message----- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 11:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: This feature should never have been uploaded!" or Version Control Systems, Anyone? Wow, you can keep track of 200 issues? Most people can only keep track of 7 according to psychological tests. Source control is the most basic part of the development process and anyone who recommends "human engineering" is someone to steer clear from. On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dave Babbitt wrote: > I have been using the human engineering method of controlling code, but it > seems at about 200 Issues, my brain starts losing track of which issues > intersect at which template. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Warrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 6:03 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: This feature should never have been uploaded!" or Version > Control Systems, Anyone? > > > Visual Source Safe? > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/ > > Personally I prefer the human engineering method of controlling code, but if > you gotta have a computer keep track of what you do - well - there you go. > > ---mark > > ======================================================== > Mark Warrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Founder, Fusioneers.com / CTO, ZapConnect.com > Phone: 714-547-5386 / 714-667-0203 / Efax: 801-730-7289 > http://www.warrick.net / http://www.fusioneers.com > http://www.zapconnect.com > ICQ: 125160 AIM: markwarric Yahoo: Serengeti > ======================================================== > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave Babbitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:29 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: This feature should never have been uploaded!" or Version > > Control Systems, Anyone? > > > > > > Hi Guys! > > > > For some inexplicable reason, probably financial, my boss, the CTO, > > steadfastly refused to buy any version control system off the > > shelf and left > > me with the task of managing this manually. I didn't have control over the > > development server, there was no staging server, etc. > > > > Now, the CTO is no longer my boss and the president has given me > > permission > > to buy something. But, what? It has to manage about 84,000 lines > > of code. It > > has to be able to revert to a previous version on the production server, > > etc. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanx > > > > Dave > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
