I've used a Continuous Integration server in the past with great success, and hadn't had the need to ever perform a code freeze on the source control system. However, lately it seems that everywhere I look, most shops are using the concept of code freezes when preparing for a release, or even a new test version of their product. This i...
Say I'm working on a project and I know that I've completed a specific class and that it should not be edited again, ever. How can I lock this class so no more commits on it can happen? I've tried locking it, but that only lasts one commit and still allows me to edit it. Reasoning: I have a class that performs one thing, and one thing...
Hi Guys, I am working on a project that has been running for a long period of time and we're coming up on a final release of the product. Current testing efforts have discovered there are about thirty defects left in the system, however we don't have time to fix all of these defects (a very common situation I am sure). I have had seve...
Hello, I made a game in VB .Net that uses tcp and sends messages back and forth. What is happening is, every so often, the message cannot be sent quickly enough, so then the TCPObj.connect() method goes into a loop, until it reaches the timeout and then spits out an error. Most of the time though, it never gets to the error, my applica...
I'm just curious if the community considers it acceptable to use the term "Code Freeze" for situations where we stop development except for testing and fixing bugs. Development Situation We're just finishing up our third and final sprint, which will be followed by a "Code freeze" and 2 weeks of Q/A testing. It is a big release and som...