October 2004
Beginner to intermediate
736 pages
15h 38m
English
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? | ||
| --Seymour Cray | ||
If some package X is widely depended upon by the development team, it is undesirable for X to be very unstable (going through many new versions), since it increases the impact on the team in terms of constant version re-synchronization and fixing dependent software that breaks in response to changes in X (version thrashing).
This sounds—and is—obvious, but sometimes a team does not pay attention to identifying and stabilizing the most depended-upon packages, and ends up experiencing more version ...