One of the Champions Online programmers posted this tidbit on their forums:
...Bugs are fixed and incremental patches are applied to the baseline. At some point the build producer (who is ridiculously awesome, organized and hard working, you should see the spreadsheet she makes for every single build that goes through PTS [Public Test Server] tracking everything that people say they are putting in, and tracking down the checkins where folks didn't say what they were attempting to put in) starts getting really antsy about incrementals that are lots of files, because the more files that are being patched incrementally, the more complex the build process is, and she starts getting really antsy about ones that don't fix something utterly critical, because despite being very very careful, every single incremental will have a bug rate, and at some point adding them is delaying the ability to got the patch tested and able to be launched...So they are using a spreadsheet to track builds? Did they learn that from the O'Reilly book, Excel as a Development Environment? Are they using R1C1-Not-So-Agile development techniques?
Scary and sad.
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