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Need help with Synergy's use of cache?

I'm wondering if anybody knows when exactly a cache value is generated for a Synergy object?

Is a cache value for an object generated by simply opening viewing an object from the GUI, in addition to when you create an object and perform a "Use" on the object?

I've noticed that if a cache value for an object is deleted on the file system, viewing the properties of the object in Synergy still shows the object as having the CVID of the cache value deleted from the file system. Opening the said object from Synergy then re-creates the object in the cache on the file system.

If an object has its cache value deleted from the filesystem (as opposed to using clean_cache), is it possible that the same cache value could be used again by another object?

Is there a command specifically to cache/re-cache a Synergy object?

Glyn_Mo
Need advice on Endevor Promotion Packages?

Looking for input from anyone using Promotion Packages for Endevor.

Was it hard to implement?
How was this change viewed by your users?

KimBann
Anyone out here that has (admin) experience with Serena Dimensions?

Reason for asking is that we now have a site that runs SD while the rest of the sites are on CM Synergy since long, and we want to start to learn of the possibilities of migrating from SD to CMS...

Per Lundborg
Is there any way to create new (mandatory) attributes for the object type "project" in Synergy?

in our project there is one interesting requirement initiated by some project managers:

There is a synergy project named "documents" with the release docs/1.0.0. this project contains some papers, protocolls, records, concepts and other important documents. there are also some subprojects and subdirectories.

The requirement is: the subprojects need some new (mandatory!) attributes, e.g. "responsible team" or "responsible manager". Everytime a new (sub-)project for release docs/1.0.0 is created the creator needs to fill in the responsible team for that project. The value of the attribute can be any string and no plausibility checks are needed.

Is there any way to create new (mandatory) attributes for the object type "project"?

Maybe, create a new type "custom_project" or derive from the typedef "project" could help.

any ideas?

radex
Why is there parallel notification in Synerfy: objects vs. tasks?

I think the task-based methodology is cool and very powerful but there are some issues and concepts that confuse me.

there is a simple comprehension question:

let there be a root object foo.c (Version: 1 , Release: test/1.0)

-Developer A creates a new Task for release test/1.0 and checks out the object foo.c. The new version is foo.c-2. The developer wants to backup the temporary changes and checks in the object (foo.c-2 integrate). The Task is stil "assigned"! Then the developer continues his work and has now the version foo.c-3 (working). Both versions are not "completed", the task is still "assigned" and therefore "invisible" for the update rules of the other collaborative projects for release test/1.0.

radex
DevOps 101: The Future of Development, Quality and Operations

DevOps is a movement that is underway or at least in the very early stages of infancy as a way to rid the IT world of some if not most of its silo’s.  Silos have existed in Information Technology (IT) from the beginning for two reasons, the complex nature of early IT systems and because that’s the way businesses are run, for the most part.  Silo’s are an easy way for Accounting to make sense of business operations, for example, marketing only does marketing activities, sales does sales, distribution does distribution, etc.  So fast forward to today’s IT environment where Agile is taking hold and become more prevalent, where IT systems are becoming more complex, where news reaches the rest of the worlds in seconds not days or weeks.  Large scale failures and inefficiency is becoming not only way of life, in some people’s eyes it’s the norm in IT.  DevOps is an attempt to correct this: Will it succeed?  Time will tell.

Joe Townsend's picture Joe Townsend
Agile Teams Care about Dev Ops

While it’s good that the idea of considering production issues early now has a name (Dev Ops), what matters in the end is delivering software more reliably, reducing waste in the product delivery process, and making stakeholders happy. Since product’s don’t deliver value until they are deployed and working it’s good to take a step back and consider operations and deployment processes and team as first class stakeholders earlier.

Steve Berczuk's picture Steve Berczuk
What Is DevOps, Anyway?

“DevOps” is a contraction of “development and quality assurance” and “operations” that describes the practice and result of the bi-directional integration of these functions in an enterprise. It is a set of development, quality assurance, and operational tools and processes aimed at achieving the business goal of deploying timely and higher-quality software products and services.

Bill Portelli
The Crucial Role DevOps Plays in Change and Configuration Management

Agile's core principles may have been originally intended at the software development, but the concept of DevOps has shown that agile's benefits can be experienced by a much larger audience. Collaboration between these two departments benefits just as much as anyone.

Sasha Gilenson's picture Sasha Gilenson
How can Subversion do something similar to 'cvs watch'?

I'm sure I'd seen this before but can't identify it now.

jwschaeff

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