John,
I like that idea. I don't know how the ‘business side’ would work. i.e.; the money …unfortunately we all have to earn a living unless your rich, then I say god bless you..We use SVN and I can test you for IBM Mainframe source its kinda ok ..I don't think its SVN. From: john.archie.mck...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 10:37 AM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Bob Shannon <bshan...@rocketsoftware.com>wrote: > > For smaller ISVs, I wonder if it would be helpful to integrate something > like "git" or "subversion" into their processing, with a secure (are there > any?) "off site" backup master. > > Why do you think this is an original idea? All ISVs deal with source code > management. Some use open source solutions; some use RYO methods. Most, if > not all, escrow the source on release boundaries. Our CVS repositories are > replicated to three different locations daily. I'm sure we're not unique. > I didn't mean for it to come across as being an original thought (there is nothing new under the Sun). It was just to toss out an idea which I hadn't seen discussed on this thread before. Kind of along with the idea of the software escrow and how some said that the software in escrow becomes out of date, sometimes quite quickly. So perhaps a "software escrow" company could be the host for the off site repository & backup system. This should keep the software in the escrow account up to date. And, with an SCM, make it possible for a company or client (if the vendor goes out of business) to get a specific level of the software. This would be much easier if the build process included the SCM "level" (git commit or "whatever" for other SCMs - I think subversion has some "special indicator" which is replaced on checkout by the "level") was used to generate the executable. It would also be helpful if the build process itself created some sort of "object" (don't know what) which detailed how the build was actually done (make file, scripts, JCL, other). And this may be what your company, and others, are already doing. I'm am not all that knowledgeable about such, unless they are brought up here. > > Bob Shannon > Rocket Software > > -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
