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Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question

From	Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question
Date	2011-12-09 17:26 +0100
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On 2011-12-09 13:51, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> Let me put it this way, and maybe this helps to make my point: "they
>> make creating new repositories much easier", as you mentioned above, is
>> _not_ a selling point in many client environments. There is zero appeal
>> to many managers of developers being able to make repositories, and
>> there can be substantial pushback to features like this. To many
>> managers the features of DVCSs that you or I (or other with-it
>> developers) like are negative selling points, because they interpret
>> those as leading to lack of control and lack of visibility.
> 
> I'm putting in a word for the managers: 
> 
> The longer you keep your changes local (even if "locally commited"), the
> higher is the risk of a conflict with other devels' changesets.

Have you thought about how "devel" sounds to a native English speaker? I
wouldn't use that abbrev.

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