[p4] Paying Perforce Support

[Jim Correia]

On May 16, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Whitfield, Greg wrote:

> But if I stuck my manager-with-a-budget hat on, I would argue with  
> these
> figures. You hinted that that developers could get on with other  
> stuff,
> and as a manager that is what I would pick up on to argue about. Also,
> will all your engineers really submit at least once in 10 hours?
> Probably not. So many engineers will in fact be largely unaffected.

Even when I go more than 10 hours with submitting, I still notice if  
the WAN between my and the server has flaked out. P4's server centric  
way of dealing with things means I must contact the server to do an  
edit, revert, or compare to base.

Also, don't discount the critical need sensor. Stuff never breaks  
when everyone is on vacation. It breaks at the most inconvenient time  
possible :-)

Jim