Bazaar SCM

Instead of implementing an "SCM cathedral" (or beside the one we ought to have anyway), ClearCase and the web make it possible for us to grow an SCM bazaar.

The interests are manyfold:

• the knowledge and understanding of our environment, our tools, our procedures and the rationale for the choices made about them would be better distributed among us
• the leverage of the tools and procedures would grow, and so would their quality, as they would be evaluated from many points of view, by different users
• the environment would not lay behind: it would be quicker to find somebody to fix it

Concretely

Tasks would be assigned on a round-robin basis, successively to different members of the department. There would at any moment in time always be two people in charge, with the lead sweeping on a weekly basis, as one member would change.

So, the assignements would be for two weeks, the second of which as team leader.

A clear task list would be maintained publically, with clear priorities. Personal competences and opportunities would be taken into consideration for picking the tasks, under the team leader's responsibility.

The assignments would be known and planned in advance, so as not to disrupt other plans.