Remote Development Line

Synopsis::Helps coordinate among remote teams.

Intent
Coordinating geographically remote teams.

Motivation
Geographically distributed teams often need to coordinate their work while maintaining a degree of separation.

Applicability
Geographically distributed teams.

Also known as
also known as::Site Development Line

Structure
Create a branch from the main development codeline for each remote team. Changes are synchronised between the main development and remote codelines.

Consequences

 * There is a significant increase in merge activity, and the two way nature of this merge activity can be problematic for many version control tools.

Related patterns
There are no known variants of the remote development line pattern.

The following patterns are related to the pattern.
 * related pattern::Codeine Policy
 * related pattern::Codeine Owner
 * related pattern::Docking Line
 * related pattern::Restricted Access