Palantir: raising awareness among configuration management workspaces

@inproceedings{citeulike:1881871, abstract = {Current configuration management systems promote workspaces that isolate developers from each other. This isolation is both good and bad It is good, because developers make their changes without any interference from changes made concurrently by other developers. It is bad, because not knowing which artifacts are changing in parallel regularly leads to problems when changes are promoted from workspaces into a central configuration management repository. Overcoming the bad isolation, while retaining the good isolation, is a matter of raising awareness among developers, an issue traditionally ignored by the discipline of configuration management. To fill this void, we have developed Palantir, a novel workspace awareness tool that complements existing configuration management systems by providing developers with insight into other workspaces. In particular, the tool informs a developer of which other developers change which other artifacts, calculates a simple measure of severity of those changes, and graphically displays the information in a configurable and generally non-obtrusive manner. To illustrate the use of Palantir, we demonstrate how it integrates with two representative configuration management systems.}, author = {Sarma, A. and Noroozi, Z. and van der Hoek, A. }, booktitle = {Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {1881871}, journal = {Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International Conference on}, keywords = {awareness, coordination, scm}, pages = {444--454}, posted-at = {2008-05-03 20:08:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Palantir: raising awareness among configuration management workspaces}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1201222}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1881871 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1881871 TI - Palantir: raising awareness among configuration management workspaces T2 - Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International Conference on JF - Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. 25th International Conference on SP - 444 EP - 454 N2 - Current configuration management systems promote workspaces that isolate developers from each other. This isolation is both good and bad It is good, because developers make their changes without any interference from changes made concurrently by other developers. It is bad, because not knowing which artifacts are changing in parallel regularly leads to problems when changes are promoted from workspaces into a central configuration management repository. Overcoming the bad isolation, while retaining the good isolation, is a matter of raising awareness among developers, an issue traditionally ignored by the discipline of configuration management. To fill this void, we have developed Palantir, a novel workspace awareness tool that complements existing configuration management systems by providing developers with insight into other workspaces. In particular, the tool informs a developer of which other developers change which other artifacts, calculates a simple measure of severity of those changes, and graphically displays the information in a configurable and generally non-obtrusive manner. To illustrate the use of Palantir, we demonstrate how it integrates with two representative configuration management systems. KW - awareness KW - coordination KW - scm AU - Sarma, A AU - Noroozi, Z AU - van der Hoek, A PY - 2003/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1201222 ER -