On 29 June 2010 14:39, Tom Malia <tomma...@ttdsinc.com> wrote: > Completely understood and agreed. > > As I said, I was setting the stage, not dictating the absolute. > > I understood and agreed with Stephen's core points. I didn't find the > approach to communicating those points particular efficient. >
Only one comment was tongue-in-cheek and it even had a smiley All the rest were IMHO direct and too the point. Applogies if my brevity causes offence -Stephen > My goal with the "over taxed" developers is explicitly to reduce that load. > I am not necessarily "over taxed" and if necessary I'm looking for ways > that > I can take on as much of the burden of learning and possibly doing the > processes necessary and only have to push as little as possible of that > burden to the developers. > > Tom Malia > T&T Data Solutions L.L.C. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.l...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:24 AM > To: Tom Malia > Cc: Stephen Connolly; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: What would be the best way to create "working repositories"? > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 09:16, Tom Malia <tomma...@ttdsinc.com> wrote: > > Stephen, > > > > > > > > I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I know many of your comments > are > > tongue-in-cheek and I don’t take them too personally. However, I don’t > find > > them terribly helpful either. I wont waste anymore bandwidth here on > that > > aspect of your reply. > > > > > > > > I have no idea what GIT is. If it’s another product that I would have to > > dedicate more resources to learning myself and training the already over > > taxed developers then I don’t think it’s a great idea for my situation. > > A 5-second Google search will inform you as to what git is. > > Stephen makes a valid point, though - if you & your developers are so > "overtaxed" that proper source control is too much to handle (this > includes your developers not understanding Subversion beyond what > you've described), then you have worse problems than the one you've > asked for help with here. > > In the end, I think you'll find you spend more time, money & effort > doing it wrong than you will in training & staffing appropriately to > do it right. Or, to paraphrase a sign seen around my office: If don't > have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it twice? > >
