Posts Tagged SCM
Why you’re wrong…
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Configuration Management, ITSLM, Plain Old Blog, Software Configuration Management on June 28, 2011
…if you think build, change, or release management are part of configuration management. Bob Aiello lit the blue touch paper (again) on the debate about ‘what is configuration management?’ and, once again, he seems to be trying to redefine configuration management to fit the role of Configuration Manager identified (incorrectly) in many organisations. This is absolutely the [...]
When is a change a change?
Posted by Mark in Build Management, Change Management, Configuration Management, Plain Old Blog, Software Configuration Management, Version Control on June 12, 2010
A change can be viewed in two ways; conceptually or literally. What I mean by this distinction is that when I say the requested change is to “correct spelling mistakes in the poem” I am specifying conceptually what the change is to achieve (and after the fact, what the change achieved). On the other hand [...]
Toward a CM Ontology
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Configuration Management, Information Management, SCM Tool, Software Configuration Management on May 22, 2010
As I suggested in a previous post, I think the future of CM (and most especially SCM) lies substantially with the semantic web. My reasoning is simple; CM is about information management and this information needs to be shared, controlled and updated across increasingly more diverse organisations and systems. To provide this facility we need [...]
Stabilizing builds
Posted by Mark in Build Management, CMCrossroads, ITSLM, Plain Old Blog on January 4, 2010
One challenge facing build managers is how to control the environment in which builds are performed. How to ensure that each repeated build uses the same sources, the same libraries, the same compilers, and so on. Only by ensuring all these elements can we truly claim to be able to reproduce a build reliably and [...]
Subversion Information
Posted by Mark in Subversion on June 13, 2009
Interested in Subversion? Want to get more out of it? Need some help? Got questions? I’ve recently started a Frequently Answered Questions (FAQ) for Subversion on my main site. Also, if you have a question that’s not on the FAQ, feel free to contact me. I can’t promise to answer all your questions, but I’ll [...]
