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THE LAWS OF SOFTWARE PROCESS
Before leaving for the meeting, Maria made a note to discuss meta-meta
with the repos engineer, Jill. She dropped the note as she signed off and
headed for the meeting.
Jill’s Morning
“You have to have one of the most thankless tasks, Jill,” commented
Praveen as they met up in the hallway and walked together to the media
room. “How do you keep track of everything? I mean, I just have my
resource section and sometimes I think that’s too complicated. You’ve got
the whole thing. How do you do it?”
Jill thought for a moment before replying. She usually thought carefully
before doing anything. She needed to. As the repos engineer, she was
responsible for managing the entire repository for the project. She also had
to act as liaison ...