Birds of a Feather

This ended up being more of a "meet the team" session, where we could all collectively complain about our favorite problems. Randy Guck, John Sileski, and Ron Sauers were there, as well as some ex-Starbase guys like Steve Reynolds. It was proposed that we start a StarTeam user mailing list to provide some peer-to-peer support. Some of the highlights:

• Setting up LDAP is a pain, because there is no built-in tool (yet) for doing mass DName association. You either have to do it one-by-one or write an SDK app.
• Support, for those who don't have a platinum contract (w00t for us) is not as good as it used to be. Borland has added more tiers, so the Starbase experts are now a couple of levels deep.
• We need better SDK docs.
• The integration between Caliber, StarTeam, and TestDirector may have trouble getting all the links to work bidirectionally.
• The nAnt StarTeam tasks are quite broken. I may start working with a couple of the other users to help fixing it.
• They may move to a "major release per year" model.
• People want what VSTS is calling a Shelf, a lightweight personal view. They want to check in code into a secure place at night, but not publish their code to the mainline.

They also dropped one goody where they said, "When the PM announces it tonight at the Meet the Team, pretend you're suprised." It's a good thing, if we were using Caliber.