Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Enderin Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:26:27 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4EE236B3.1050200@telia.com> References: <4edffd56$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net kmyAzlWstWXm+V7A8gmIPlnTiaqKE8CWPr0Tmq9liqBsl7yRSOny2AcAx17tpLxQJXXSh5PFbfF+xwVFYQLX3A== NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="d0X+nllIWEtHqpM/2IU0HC3udsNwHzzI+fERYrnGi5Qn9MrBtx2GfqVhIcSh84j14skhptyHk/EkdTVmqFUho2Jkg3W5MhZK36V7a78/Uk3rXCybjhXMpKsI8Kl4k6ix"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:wQUGxGU2yY7qYe1xuX2ZxCb5afc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10624 On 2011-12-09 13:51, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Arved Sandstrom 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.