Re: CVS Server for i5 to use with WDSC? -- WDSCI-L

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Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

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?

You're right. I guess I figured anyone would think of these things when deciding whether or not to use an offsite repository. I figured that these would be covered by the contract with the hosting provider, just as I assume they are with colocation or web hosting companies.

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.

Good point - one that I had not considered. I don't generally modify vendor code, so I sometimes forget about versioning it. However, I do think it is a use case that is a big win for a versioning system.

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