Re: CVS Server for i5 to use with WDSC?

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hello, Adam:

Here are a few things everyone should carefully consider, before 
deciding to store your company's source code (software assets) 
"off-site" on some other server:

   1. what assurances do you have that all information (source code) 
will be held in confidence? what prevents anyone else from accessing 
that source code?

   2. what happens if that server hosting the CVS repository is "down" 
and you need to get to your source code?

   3. your company may not have the legal right to store vendor source 
code for software packages on any system other than those that software 
is licensed to.

I just wanted to point out some things to consider. 

On the other hand, if you are developing some "open source" tools or 
utilities, and you want to be able to do some joint development, 
collaboration and sharing with developers who may be located anywhere, 
then this idea of hosting the source on a server somewhere on the 
internet might not be a bad idea.

Regards,

Mark S. Waterbury

> Adam Glauser wrote:
> ...(snip)...
> Another alternative is to find a hosting provider.  Aaron Bartell 
> mentioned a Subversion hosting service that he particularly liked in his 
> Subversion article in IBM Systems Mag 
> http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/february08/developer/19751p1.aspx?ht=bartell%20bartell%20bartell
> or http://tinyurl.com/4jx6mt.
>