RE: Gnaargh! Or, I Am Not Psychic

["Matt Horn" <mhorn -at- adobe -dot- com>]

> What is the best process you've ever worked with (or dreamed 
> of) that enables technical authors to find out about 
> changes/new projects etc before the very last minute is past?
> 
> The prize for the best answer is me doing my damnedest to 
> implement it here :)

The codebase for the product I work on (Flex) is stored in a content
management system called Perforce (think Visual Source Safe, but with
lots of additional functionality for programmers). You have to check a
file out to change it, and check it back in to generate a new build of
the product. 

Everytime ANY class, properties file, graphic, or ant script gets so
much as touched, I get an email notification with the developer's
description of the change and links to diffs and all the files involved
in the change. The problem is I might get hundreds of emails a day, but
I can't miss a check in, that's for sure. 

I thought it was pretty much a given that all large-scale software
projects have a system like this in place -- maybe all you have to do is
get yourself on the notification lists.

Matthew J. Horn
Sr. Technical Writer
Adobe Systems, Inc.

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