[p4] How to communicate codeline policies to users?

[Jeff A. Bowles]

I always liked putting the policy in the top of the source-tree, e.g.,
//depot/main/policy.txt.
Keep it short, I would tell people in classes. No more than one page of
email

On 9/17/07, Chuck Emary <chuck.emary at configuresoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> We handle it through the user of a wiki and emails, from the notification
> perspective.  I use triggers to enforce the lockdown of approved defects.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com [mailto:
> perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Roy Smith
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:49 PM
> To: Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: [p4] How to communicate codeline policies to users?
>
> I've taken to putting a policy statement in my branch specs.  For
> example:
>
> > Description:
> >         Created by smithr3.  Final development branch for DMT-8.0
> >
> >         The only changes which should be submitted to this branch are
> >         critical bug fixes in response to tickets raised by QE.  If in
> >         doubt about whether it is appropriate to submit to this branch
> >         or not, please triage through Rich Hammond.
>
> The problem is that branch specs are not very visible.  It's not that
> they're hidden or secret, but you need to know to go looking for
> them.  Is there any more straight-forward way to advertise to users
> what the policy for a particular codeline is?  It would be nice, for
> example, if somebody could do "p4 policy ." and have the above
> description be printed.
>
> How do people deal with these kinds of things in production
> environments?
>
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