Re: [SourceJammer-users] basic questions for sourcejammer

[Robert M. <rob...@ya...>]

Thanks, Albert, for a terrific explanation.



--- Albert Moliner <amo...@ev...> wrote:

> 
> Robert has just sent a very good explanation on how SJ is typically set up in a network. I'll
> answer, as you ask, to your question with a short "yes" or "no" (with a "?" when I am not sure
> of having understood them 100%), but before that, let me add something.
> From your comments, I have the (perhaps wrong) impression that you believe SJ is a tool that
> does different things from what it really does. It is primarily meant as a versioning tool, just
> like Visual Source Safe or CVS (but far much better, of course ;-)), not as a network guardian
> or security provider or things like that. Versioning tools provoke wonderful "side effects" when
> properly used, like avoidance of collisions between concurrent changes by different people,
> activity monitoring, easiness of deployment, etc. But their "paradigm" is the existence of a
> repository of files that can be editted by some users. Rob's introductory help files (at the
> client install, I believe) provide a neat description of what SJ is and why it is helpful.
> So, it can be used to know who did some change in a file that turn it corrupted, but this is not
> its only aim.
> 
> As for your questions:
>   1.. No
>   2.. Yes and no
>   3.. No?
>   4.. No
>   5.. Yes ;-)
>   6.. Yes
>   7.. Yes
> 
> By the way, the users who can access a repository have nothing to do with the users in a LAN.
> The user management is local to the application.
> I hope a bit more light has been put about SJ,
> Albert.
> 



		
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