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Subject:Re: PDF filenames - include release designation ? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:24:38 +0100
The places I've worked, the source and distribution repositories were
on separate servers owned and run by different departments.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> In the majority of modern data management systems, "repositories" sit on top
> of a database. They have user interfaces and access levels that allow
> different users to do different things with the data, but they are all
> portals to the same database.
>
> The biggest difference between systems in regulated and unregulated
> environments is that in a regulated system, nothing that is uploaded can
> ever really be deleted. When you "delete" data, it just gets hidden from
> everyone except those with the access rights to recover it.
>
> On 10/29/2015 12:34 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> I've yet to work anywhere where the source code repository wasn't
>> separate from the distribution package repository. They were linked by
>> build scripts but no one outside of engineering had a login for the
>> source system.
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