We use a large number of flows to better isolate the changes and reduce the risk of
collision with the 10 or so process developers. We could model it with fewer flows but
we'd have less process re-use and more modeling bottlenecks. The other problem is
that the editor gets unwieldy with over a certain number of boxes. We have one flow with
20+ boxes and that seems to be about the max. (I meant to say that our flows have as few
as 3 boxes) We use Perforce, basic QA and common sense for that part.
The hard part is branch management. A real app, once in production, typically runs with 3
branches, "production support", "next release" and "future
work". The branches are often run by different managers and different schedules.
We're trying to figure out the best way to manage the merge and sync process given the
fact that each flow consists of 3 components, model, layout and image. Most of our
merging and diff tools do a very poor job on XML files. Plain text (java) files are
easier to merge because you can bring broken code into the Java source editor and use
Eclipse's syntax tools to help put it back together. XML tools are significantly less
helpful.
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