Administration
As in any multi-user environment, some degree of system administration is
necessary in a LAN environment. When a LAN is used to provide a workstation
application development platform, the LAN administrator must perform the
following duties:
At the outset of development for a particular application,
create a network domain for that development project. This is optional,
and it may be considered expedient to combine a number of smaller projects
into a single network domain.
Create the production libraries for the project's
network domain.
Register each developer as a user of the project's
network domain, and define each developer to have read-only access to production
libraries.
Provide the appointed owner of each application resource
with write access to the resource or resources under his/her jurisdiction.
In the case where an application resource has been
checked out and remains checked out for an unnecessary length of time (for
example, a developer checks out a resource and then goes on vacation without
first submitting the new version for promotion), provide an override capability
to cancel the checkout.
It is recommended that the LAN administrator be the same person responsible
for administration of the production libraries that contain system software
such as compilers and link-editors, in order to place all such system administration
responsibilities with the same person.
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