• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
  
• If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos… then you probably haven’t completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
  
• Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.
  
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
  
• Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
  
• A person who smiles in the face of adversity… probably has a scapegoat.
  
• Plagiarism saves time.
  
• If at first you don’t succeed, try management.
  
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
  
• TEAMWORK… means never having to take all the blame yourself.
  
• The beatings will continue until morale improves.
  
• Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.
  
• We waste time, so you don’t have to.
  
• Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
  
• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
  
• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.
  
• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
  
• INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
  
• Succeed in spite of management.
  
• Aim Low, Reach Your Goals, Avoid Disappointment.

A Version Control System (VCS) is an essential tool for a development team (or even individual developer) to manage their code. The more it can allow multiple developers to work together easily on the same code and manage the various states of that code, the better.

One of the most popular Version Control systems in the past was CVS, however in recent times this has been superseded by Subversion (SVN), which is a highly popular VCS that is well supported by a variety of client tools and is often embedded within software configuration management applications to manage file versioning (e.g. trac, collabNet, etc)

What is sometimes an issue with SVN is the ability to do local commits for each developer before a full commit to the main branch, making the main branch often unreliable and full of partially complete work, or local developers with limited versioning control etc.

Bazaar

One VCS tool that tackles this problem is Bazaar, which offers no less than 7 different Version Control workflows depending on your particular scenario.

Bazaar is developed and used by Canonical (the Ubuntu people), and has recently claimed Sun’s MySQL as a new user. Bazaar is one of many VCS tools, but it’s flexibility in workflow patterns is certainly something that makes it an interesting tool to consider.

Further Info

• General Information on Revision Control
• Comparison of Revision Control Systems
• Bazaar Documentation