And your SOX auditors haven't had a cow over that practice? Ours about died from apoplexy when they saw all the archive stuff in our production file. The only thing allowed in the production file are the programs currently in production. We were forced to create a non-compilable archive file to hold these outdated versions of programs. But the auditors still dictated that we maintain version history within the source code as well.
<rant> Everyone of you that does not reside in the USA can thank your lucky stars you don't have to deal with the absurdity of Sarbanes/Oxley. Which by the way, does nothing to prevent the kinds of things that went on at Enron. Nice job congress! </rant> Gordon J. Glorfield Sr. Applications Developer MAMSI (A UnitedHealth Company) 301-360-8839 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/29/2005 10:41:04 PM: > I agree with Jeff's disagreement. > In my travels, I'll inherit a program that may have had 1-10 prior > programmers on it. That means nothing to me now. I'm the current cook in the > kitchen and for all it matters, all of their 'mods' could have been written > when the program was originally written. The only good thing is recognizing > personal patterns (their standards) so I can think like them when the time > comes. > I have a useful method of protecting the past and staying sane for the > future. If I'm working on BP UPDATE, I copy it to BP UPDATE_092905, never to > be compiled or used again. Then the BP UPDATE is mine to clean up (Remove > all the useless mod commentsand tighten up old-school ideas) and viola, > sometimes (most of the time) the code is that much more readable. Next week, > when I need to make some more changes, I copy to BP UPDATE_100505 and so > forth. [Snip] This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
