Jason, you might want to try SourceSafe as a change management tool.
More important, IMO, than picking a "tool" -- is developing a change management
process that the team co-creates and "buys into." For example, when I was working on
a project here -- our process was as follows:
a) Create a "copy" of the file in question on the production server, include todays
date in the filename -- so that anyone logging onto the server would see it was being
worked on. [example: index_22599.html] Put a backup copy in the production archive
files. Put a copy in the test environment (with the date tag in the filename).
b) Copy to my hard drive for work. Make iterative changes to the file on my hard
drive; test in the test environment.
c) Final test - check is OK.
d) Put copy in the test environment with the "real" file name (sans todays date).
Delete the test file.
g) Overwrite the production copy with the file from test environment.
h) Archive changes on archive file on my hard drive.
> Kathy E. Gill
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> From: Jason Epstein[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Any suggestions for helping manage 5 developers working on the same pieces of code.
>The website consists of hundreds of cfm & asp pages and I'm finding more and more
>version control problems. For example, developer A will open myfile.asp and make some
>modifications to it and then developer B will open developer A's version of myfile
>and make her own changes. I then get developer B's myfile to deploy to our site with
>the original changes from developer A.
> �
> Any suggestions for software and/or procedures that can be used to ensure that I
>don't deploy developer B's scripts to the site before developer A's goes live? How
>can I make sure that developer B knows that developer A has modified this file
>already?
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> Jason Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212.583.1234x633 www.sixdegrees.com
>
> Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of
>the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones of our
>minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil.� Out of this fertile soil bloom our
>poems and stories.
>
> ���� --Natalie Goldberg
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