peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter H. Salus) (02/24/89)
WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT Sponsored by the USENIX Association The USENIX Association invites you to attend a Software Manage- ment Workshop being held in New Orleans, LA on April 3 - 4, 1989. The objective of the workshop is to present, discuss, and in- crease awareness of the issues involved with software management, in order to improve and facilitate the distribution and sharing of source throughout the UNIX community. WORKSHOP EVENT SCHEDULE SUNDAY EVENING, April 2 4:00pm - 9:00pm No host reception and registration MONDAY, April 3 TUESDAY, April 4 9:00am - 5:30pm: Workshop sessions 9:00am - 5:30pm: Workshop sessions 6:00pm - 8:00pm: Reception W O R K S H O P R E G I S T R A T I O N I N F O R M A T I O N You MUST register in advance to attend this limited enrollment workshop. Register early as space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. REGISTRATION FEE: $200.00 Deadline: March 27, 1989! H O T E L I N F O R M A T I O N The workshop will be held at: The New Orleans Hilton - Riverside & Towers Hotel Poydras at the Mississippi River New Orleans, LA 70140 Telephone: (504) 561-0500 ROOM RATES: $100.00/night - Single or Double Occupancy (Plus 11% sales tax and $2 occupancy charge per room per night) Call the Reservation Desk. Tell reservations that you are a USENIX Conference attendee to take advantage of our group rate. IMPORTANT: Room reservation deadline is March 7, 1989. Requests for reservations received after the deadline will be handled on a space and RATE available basis. A I R P O R T T O H O T E L T R A N S P O R T A T I O N New Orleans International Airport is approximately 18 miles from the New Orleans Hilton Hotel. Rhodes Limousine Service is avail- able outside the baggage claim area at a cost of $7.00 one way. Limousine service runs every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day. Taxi service is available at an approximate cost of $18 one way. Tentative Program Monday, April 3 9:00-10:30 Introduction and Keynote Address Chair: David Tilbrook Vic Stenning, Anshar Ltd., "Project Hygiene" 11:00-12:30 Version Management I Chair: Deborah Scherrer Steven R. Bourne, Sun Microsystems "What a Source Code Control System Should Do" Masahiro Honda and Terence Miller, Sun Microsystems "Software Management using a CASE Environment" Andy Glew, Motorola MCD, "Boxes, Links, and Parallel Trees" 12:30-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:30 Version Management II Chair: Kirk McKusick Peter Costantinidis, Jr. and Hamish Reid, Unisoft Corp. "The DV System of Source File Management" Dale Miller, Sterling IMD, "Controlling Software for Multiple Projects" 4:00-5:30 Testing Chair: Barry Shein Barton P. Miller, Lars Fredriksen and Bryan So Computer Sciences Dept, University of Wisconsin, Madison "An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Operating System Utilities" Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado, Boulder, Panel Discussion 6:00-8:00 RECEPTION Tuesday, April 4 9:00-10:30 Installation & Configuration Management Chair: David Tilbrook Russel Brand and D. Brent Chapman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories "RAPID: Remote Automated Patch Installation Data Base" Susan A. Dart and Peter Feiler, Software Engineering Institute, CMU "Configuration Management of an Environment" Tan Bronson, Microvation, "The CCSLAND Configuration Control System" 11:00-12:30 Release Engineering Chair: Deborah Scherrer Kirk McKusick, CSRG, University of California, Berkeley "The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD" Don Davis, MIT Project Athena, "Project Athena's Release Engineering Tricks" Mel Pleasant and Eliot Lear, Rutgers University "Transcending Administrative Domains by Automating System Management Tasks in a Large Heterogeneous Environment" 12:30-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:30 Miscellaneous Topics Chair: Kirk McKusick Paul R. Eggert, Unisys Corporation, "Automating the Importation of Software" Andrew Hume, AT&T Bell Laboratories, "The Use of a Time Machine to Control Software" Peter Nicklin, Hewlett-Packard "Experiences Using a Hypertext Framework to Manage Software" 4:00-5:30 The Grand View Chair: Barry Shein David Tilbrook, Nixdorf Corp. "Under Ten Flags: Software Management on Many Different Unix Systems" Panel Discussion and Wrap-up FOR FURTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: USENIX Conference Office P.O. Box 385 16951 Pacific Coast Hwy Sunset Beach, CA 90742 Telephone: (213) 592-1381, (213) 592-3243