Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:22:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is your product built at your place? Message-ID: <20020627162010.M5007-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20020604140226.DA4083F3A@bast.unixathome.org>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > I've recently found two rather divergent approaches to building products. > > 1 - Loadbuild does all the Makefiles, knows all the products inside and > out, works with the engineers to create the product, and fixes it if it > the build breaks. > > 2 - Loadbuild makes the product, the engineers create their own Makefiles, > and they fix it if the build breaks. > > "Loadbuild" might a person or a team, but it's one part of the company. > I'm just wondering how widely spread both approaches are. Other factors > which might affect the choice are: complexity of product, size of company, > etc. FYI, my job uses method #2. I don't think there's a particular reason behind it, though. Probably "loadbuild" yelled overwork because he's also the source repos maintenance guy. Marc. -- I telnetted to whitehouse.gov, and all I got was this lousy .signature! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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