contractors

Old Code in comments

How long should you keep old code commented out in your code base. The contractors continue to keep old code in code base by turning it into comments. This is really frustrating and I want them to just remove the old code instead of commenting it out. Is there a valid reason to keep old code in the code base as comments? Update: Versi...

Managing Contractors with SVN on Projects

What do you recommend for using SVN as a means to manage development of a project using remote/external developers in terms of code review/managing changes,etc? Should everyone checkin to the trunk and provide comments for everything or do people use patches, branches, or some othe process to manage this? Please provide any suggestions y...