CM Basics - January 2007
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CM Basics offers readers the answers to their configuration
management
"how-to" questions with tips from the experts,
real-life case studies,
product reviews and industry news coverage.
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In this Issue
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1. Controlling SCA Modules
2. Why Your Recovery Should Be At Least As Good As Your
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3. WEBCAST: Accelerating Software Delivery with Integrated
Change and Release Management
4. Ask Mr. Make: The pitfalls and benefits of GNU Make
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6. DevZone: Change and Release Management
7. Recent Discussion in the Forums: Software Product Lines
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Controlling SCA Modules
by Alan Rogers
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This is an ongoing of series of articles about Configuration
Management in a SA environment. This is one of most
difficult areas to understand because this uses multi layer
baselines to support it and also there is also a difficulty
of long lives process and short-lived process.
The definition that has been used in the SOA programme is:
* Short lived is measured in seconds and minutes
* Long lived is measured in hours, days and months
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Why Your Recovery Should Be At Least As Good As Your Backup
By Eric Schou
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In our ongoing contacts with customers, we have found that
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When software development teams are siloed without a
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The pitfalls and benefits of GNU Make parallelization
By John Graham-Cumming
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Many build processes run for hours with build managers
commonly typing 'make' and going home for the night. GNU
Make's solution to this problem is parallel execution: a
simple command-line option causes GNU Make to run jobs in
parallel using the dependency in the Makefile to run in the
correct order.
In practice GNU Make parallel execution is severely limited
by a number of problems stemming from the fact that almost
all Makefiles are written with the implicit notion that they
will run in series. Hardly any Makefile authors 'think
parallel' when writing their Makefiles which cause hidden
traps that either cause the build to fail with a fatal error
when GNU Make is run in parallel-mode, or, worse, the build
succeeds but builds incorrect binaries.
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- SCM andDave by David Hegland
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- Configure This! by Carson Lucky
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Chapter 7.2: The Mission
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Product-Line CM in CACM
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Recent Discussion in the Forums:
Software Product Lines
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Hello,
the majority of the articles and posts I've seen here
concentrate on single system development. However things can
become much more complicated when configuration management
is applied to software product lines. I would be glad if we
could start a discussion here about practical problems,
challenges and possible solutions of configuration
management in the context of product lines.
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topic,70819.0
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