The purpose of RCS within the development of DP105 is to provide a hierarchical structure for managing and maintaining revisions of the various documents used in the development of all aspects of the project. The document types include documents, procedures, figures, and source code. The management of these documents is vital for a structured approach to system development as well as providing a method of recovery in the event of a loss of data. The guiding philosophy of the use of RCS is to aid and not hinder the development and management of documents. In this light, a cooperative arrangement has been agreed to and the following guidelines have been created to help facilitate the use of RCS within the wireless group.
All documents are to be developed and backed-up.
RCS shall be backed up on a system that is tape backed-up nightly. If any document is being developed by a single individual, then the document does not need to be logged into RCS until an acceptable version of the document is complete. This allows for a benchmark version to be created and further editing may occur, but this version will be frozen and retained for future use. The cooperative environment allows for the utilization of the RCS and its features for the betterment of the wireless group. Read and refer to the readme.txt file for specific examples of RCS use.