[ale] collaborative work environment

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com 
> <mailto:Richard at bronosky.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Confluence is a lie. We use it at my company and it doesn't deliver on
>     the promise.
> 
>     Use IRC on freenode with a logger bot. Make the channel private.
>     Simple ancient tech. Done.
> 
>     The "checked out" paradigm is terrible and MSFT Visual Source Safe is
>     the only product I know of that uses it. I would suggest Google docs.
>     Don't over complicate things
> 
> 
> Ever tried merging word processing docs from multiple sources? TOTAL PItA!
> 
> I have seen (and used) an openoffice odt gunzippped and put into a 
> subversion repo. Sortof worked. Probably be better if it was a git repo 
> instead. 

We keep everything from C source code, perl source code, sql source 
code, configuration files, images, Open Office docs, and tarballs in 
subversion, nary a problem.  I'm curious what problem you ran into? 
Aren't odt docs really compressed tar xml files or something of that 
nature?  Curious why you would gzip it.

> 
> 
>     On 11/9/10, John Scott <John.Scott at peak10.com
>     <mailto:John.Scott at peak10.com>> wrote:
>      >> I am looking for a set of tools to help in an upcoming project.
>      >
>      > Check out Confluence:
>      > http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
>      >
>      >
>      >
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