[SCC_Active_Members] Subversion as a basis for software archive

[Grady Booch]

Al is correct; while the initial discussion re subversion is somewhat 
interesting, there seems to be a rush to choose a technology solution 
before the problem is understood.

what's going on here needs to be treated as a software development 
project. use cases neeed to be syndicated; the forces and the dynamics of 
those forces need to be considered. then and only then can the right team 
go off and engineer an initial solution...and then that solution needs to 
be grown incrementally and iteratively.

you may get a quick solution now, but the muesum will pay for it big time 
in the future.

Grady Booch
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Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> 
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Van Snyder wrote:

 > How about CVS or SCCS?  I think these are based on plain files.
 >

Would the collective 'we' on this list please refrain from suggesting
solutions to this 'problem' until the museum staff has time to actually
generate a REQUIREMENTS document?

I'm sorry about being so blunt, but as an engineer I cannot understand
how any sort of rational discussion on this subject can be made until
the actual problem to solve is presented.


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