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Re: Seeking counsel - yet another difficult work situation
Subject:Re: Seeking counsel - yet another difficult work situation From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:31:07 -0500
> >in order to collect the infomration I needed, I would have to get a new
> >build of a product daily and search for each change manually myself.
>
> That's basically what I do; coupled with a good ear for listening into
> conversations by developers to help me know what to watch for as I look at
> each new build. To add to that, though, I've become friends with the
> developers and I know basically who owns which features, so I know who I
> can go to when I have specific questions. Over time, they've gotten better
> and better at letting me know what they've changed, because they know I'll
> find it soon enough and come to ask about it anyway.
Another beneficial approach is to get access to the SOURCE CODE and
keep up on check-in comments, as well as do a diff on the header files
for the assemblies to see what was changed since the last build.
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