Hey, I reread that and I didn't mean it to sound so harsh. Perhaps for
very large teams or teams of teams it makes sense, but really, I think
that the real thing to tackle is the people issue.
Michael Feathers wrote:
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>>It doesn't! What it does is remove the "problem" in the first place :-)
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>>Let's try to remove all our existing knowledge: if you didn't have to
>>care about the build, why would you?
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>Because it's hard for me to imagine caring about the product without
>caring about the build. If we don't care whether software builds
>correctly, well, then all bets are off. We might as well go out and in
>the street and play marbles rather than write software. So, for that
>reason it is important to care -very publically- about the build. It
>builds that sense that: hey, we as a team, care about quality work.
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>><>What the developer will still need to care about is committing
>>frequently. This is the important part because this is what is causing
>>the integration to happen.
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>>-Vincent
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>The problem is... it cycles back on itself. In your system, developers
>don't have to care about committing frequently, they have to care about
>committing frequently and correctly. And, it appears that in the
>situation you outlined, they don't care about committing correctly yet.
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>In cases like these, teams are usually in a good deal of pain. The key
>thing is to get them to feel what it is like when good habits get them
>past the pain rather than applying analgesics.
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>Michael Feathers
>author, Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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