Re: developer privs in development (old thread inaccessible)

Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<u4qwa1p4j.fsf_at_standardandpoors.com>...
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
>
> > Developers need to learn to work together as a team.
>
> Thats what source control is all about. Everybody focuses on
> maintaining the mainline. That is the teamwork that must be
> focused on, or, are you suggesting that everybody also share the
> same desk and chair?

You seem to be thinking about this only from the perspective of your code and source control works great for that but what about database versions?

We had a case where developers were doing exactly what you have said they all had their own local instance of an Oracle database and were developing happily on their own (of course the code was in source control ) even though we had a development database that was setup and ready for their use.

When it came time to put this application into a staging database pre production an odd thing was found. Their application no longer worked because they had been developing against 9i and our databases were still at 8.1.7.4 upgrading was not an option yet (for various other reasons) so they had to backtrack and fix their application.

While the case may be a bit extreme 8.1.7 - 9i I can easily see where other minor version changes that each developer didn't keep up with could cause the same issues yet your code is still perfectly in sync. Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 08:45:56 CST