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Hi Tony, (and other list readers) I introduced my software team to CVSNT over a year ago now and it together with the excellent WinCVS client have really proven their worth. Many developers from other teams are beginning to hear and see how good it is and are starting to get their team leaders/managers to take notice. Well Done and thanks. I have many ideas about how our company should be doing Configuration Manangement and the following is an Itch that I intend to scratch that would be a real revolution in terms of efficiency, reproducability, flexibility and overall quality. I would like to have a Software Configuration Indexing (SCI) tool that provides a flexible and controllable connection to multiple diversely managed WinCVS/CVSNT Repositories. Some high level requirements of such a tool include:- * can connect to multiple repositories (multiple protocols, mulitple usernames) * can provide fast module selection. * can provide fast and intelligent baseline/tag selection (Recommended, Filtering, Sorting) * allows sharing of "SCI"s so that developers, integrators and testers can all get as much or as little of each others code, easily, efficiently, and reliably wherever they may be. i.e. at their desks, on shared software integration rigs, on shared hardware integration rigs, or on the actual customer's systems. * can audit that the files that SCI is pointing at are the ones that the SCI says they are. * can version control everything about itself. The implementation of such a tool would be greatly simplified if/when the server Database backend is operational. I have been trawling the list getting snippets that is in development. I can see using the viewcvs that you have had a mysql directory, by the files are no longer or are currently not available. Is there a branch that I can checkout so I can get an idea of what the schema might be. I don't mind being pointed to the latest bleeding non-compiling edge if you make that available. cheers and thanks again, Mike Wake. Some Background: I work in the software engineering department of a large flight simluation company which like most large software companies is organised into various departments (~60 people) each of which are broken down into smaller teams (5-10 people), these are broken down into smaller subsets based on expertise, specialisation and hence code ownership. We simulate many different types of aircraft, and support multiple customer specific options and requirements. At the end of the day all of these teams, and all of these departments must create a software load that works together in a coherent, reproducable and quality controlled way. We do all that today, quite successfully, but with much heartache, boring drudgery, inefficiency and wasted time. The tools and processes we use were developed in house many years ago are based on RCS. They involve far too much human intervention, do not have a network distribution layer and as a result do not provide inter-developer isolation when required and do not support inter-developer integration well when needed. Throw in the fact that development needs to occur both in house and during final integration and testing on site.