Yesterday I was given a new assignment. Of a certain system all development was stopped a month ago. The latest version, deployed and tested on the test environment, will not continue to be deployed on the production environment. The current version running on production is almost a year old. All new functionality developed after this version will be withdrawn, except for two changes. The assignment is to implement only these two changes on the version current running in production.

 

All the Java code is nicely stored in subversion. There is a tag of the version current running on the production environment, as well as several tags of later versions which has not been deployed to production, only to the test environment. And the trunk is the latest developemnt code, as it should be. How are we going to this, so the trunk can be used in future to contitue development? (more…)