Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:20:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: darrend@novell.com (Darren Davis) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, terry@lambert.org, rkw@dataplex.net, current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Latest Current build failure - Reply Message-ID: <199609041820.LAA06943@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <s22d5130.070@novell.com> from "Darren Davis" at Sep 4, 96 09:59:36 am
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> >> At Novell, using CVS with a reader/writer lock front end, we were > >> able to keep a project with 18+ engineers hacking on it 8-12 hours > >> a day buildable for every night but 5 for a period of 8 months. > >> Further, we did it on three machine architectures. > > > >With fulltime engineers in how many time zones? > > We have fulltime engineers in San Jose CA, Provo UT, and India. We used > to have a bunch of engineers in Summit NJ, but not to many anymore. All > these timezones are still working on the source tree that Terry is talking > about. Actually, I was referring to the NWU code base only. But as Darren points out, there are several projects that fit the bill; his example is better because it has four time zones instead of three. Time zones are not a sufficient reason for throwing out the baby with the bathwater -- the point of both examples. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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