Cool! I didn't know KIDS did all that. So what we now need is to establish the set of signals that tell a ship that it needs to go into dry dock for an oil change (or whatever ships do in floating dry docks when on maneuvers - excuse my skimpy nautical knowledge).
What does KIDS do if a process is in an area that it wants to change? -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 15:54 -0500, Cameron Schlehuber wrote: > All patches and version updates to VistA in VA are handled via KIDS > (or at > least they're supposed to!) One of the capabilities KIDS offers is to > lock > out users of selected options related to the code being changed. > Other > users then can continue their merry way during what in some cases may > be > lengthy installation processes. Rather than VistA being like a car > (a > system), it's more like a fleet (a system of systems), where we even > have > the equivalent of floating dry-docks to do repairs while engaged in > active > maneuvers. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
