[ale] Strategies for OS code in the Enterprise

[Dow Hurst]

Yes, I would think the current developers would love some help!  You can 
give feedback as well since your getting to production mode.  Is the 
project a fast moving target or slow?
Dow


Chris Fowler wrote:

>Hand merging works best.  But if you fixed the bugs, why did you not
>post a patch to be placed into the main tree?
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>On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 15:19, John Wells wrote:
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>>Guys,
>>
>>In my relatively new management role, I'm doing my best at every turn to
>>leverage the power of open source software.
>>
>>I have, however, a problem I've never really faced before.  We're
>>implementing a issue tracking package (www.issue-tracker.com) and have
>>installed the latest "stable" release.  While testing it, we've run across
>>a number of bugs.  We've also installed the latest development version
>>from CVS which fixes a lot of the bugs, but introduces a lot more.
>>
>>So, what I'm left with is a "fork" of issue-tracker...our locally
>>maintained and personally fixed version, and the official tree at
>>issue-tracker.com.  For the sake of upgrades and to keep the ability of
>>taking advantage of enhancements, I need to come up with a strategy of
>>"syncing" the trees upon the next major release.
>>
>>While I'm guessing this will simply involve me downloading the release and
>>updating our local cvs repos with the latest code (handling any merges by
>>hand), the idea isn't necessarily pleasant.  I'm still thinking through
>>the issue, but would like to hear other input from you guys...ever faced a
>>similar situation?  Did you come up with an ingeniuous solution?  Is there
>>a feature of CVS I'm missing that makes this easy?
>>
>>Thanks for the input!
>>
>>John
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