I would be worried about baselining docs together with code. UCM does this
easily. I suppose this could be made to work in the mixed UCM/non-UCM env
-- anybody care to comment about the possible pitfalls with using a mixture
of UCM and non-UCM on the same project?
Sincerely,
James.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gande Thirupathaiah [mailto:gthirupa@harmonicinc.com
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:38 AM
To: Yamuna Ramasubramaniyan
Cc: 'Couball, James'; 'cciug@rational.com'
Subject: Re: [cciug] UCM: good for some artifacts, bad for others?
Hi,
Why do not we put all the documents (like design docs etc) in a NON UCM
vob?
Can any body tell me on what do we gain by putting these in UCM VObs?
Thanks
gande
Yamuna Ramasubramaniyan wrote:
>
> James,
>
> You have it right in that any change a person makes needs to be delivered
> and baselined before it can be accessed by anyone else. It is painful in
> the initial development stage of the project. It is not particularly
> mistake prone (if you can't see the doc in your view, you just can't see
the
> doc), but it does cause a lot of heartburn ("But I just need to see it,
why
> do I have to do all this stuff" will become a very familiar phrase). You
> might want to consider having everyone use one development stream during
> this initial phase only. That way project members can read the docs, edit
> them etc. in real time and deliver and baseline it when it undergoes a
peer
> review periodically.
>
> -Cheers,
> Yamuna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Couball, James [mailto:James.Couball@cotelligent.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:41 AM
> To: 'cciug@rational.com'
> Subject: [cciug] UCM: good for some artifacts, bad for others?
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using ClearCase UCM (w/o ClearQuest integration at the moment) in an
> environment where we previously used SourceSafe. I am running up against
a
> usability issue I was hoping that someone could help me with.
>
> It is early in the project and there are a lot of documents being shared
by
> the develolpment team. They used to use SourceSafe to share the
documents.
> This was easy for them: just check it in and the next person can get it.
> Now that we have moved to ClearCase using UCM, one person must deliver
their
> changes, someone must baseline the delivered changes, and then the
> interested parties must rebase their development stream. It strikes me
that
> I am not using UCM or ClearCase correctly if it is so hard to do this.
> People will make mistakes.
>
> I think that this is particularly the case for management documents. For
> instance, you don't usually go through a change management process for
> changes made to the project plan -- right?
>
> How do others use ClearCase UCM for managing these types of documents in a
> way that makes it easy for people make small changes and share the results
> with others? Maybe these type of documents shouldn't be stored using UCM?
>
> Sincerely,
> James.
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