Meeting called to order on January 22, 2002 at 5:30pm at Rational Software, (secondary conference room), Burlington, MA by BMRCCUG President Jim Dunion.

Elaine Simeone of Rational Software notified the membership that the 'Call for Papers' for the RUC 2002 had been extended to Friday, January 25, 2002. Approximately 500 papers have been received to date.

(1730-1830) Feature Presentation - "Enterprise Level ClearCase discussion"
Presented by Devin Murphy, General Dynamics C4 Systems.

Presentation covered the following topics:
  • Elements of a large-scale ClearCase environment.
  • Automation: examples and discussion
  • Best practices discussion

    (1830) Those in attendance discussed possible future meeting topics including:
  • ClearCase dual automation library
  • Backup strategies
  • Linux Red Hat
  • ClearCase add-ons
  • ClearAudit
  • ctcmd (portable triggers that run up to 30% faster)
  • VOB splitting as it pertains to MultiSite and UCM
  • Third Party Tools
  • ClearCase/ClearQuest integration
  • UCM best practices
  • clearmake/omake
  • ClearCase Tuning and Performance
  • Parallel and Distributed builds (Dave Darby possible presenter)
  • Individual ClearCase site properties. (ex. How does company 'x' implement ClearCase)

    New Business
  • A guest speaker and topic of discussion are being worked on for the next meeting by Director of Events Chris Chalifoux
  • The BMRCCUG business meeting will be held Tuesday, March 26, 2002. Among the items on the agenda will include the election of officers to the Board of Directors.

    (1930) Drawing held for three Rational backpacks from RUC 2001.

    (1940) Motion to adjourn was made by BMRCCUG President Jim Dunion with a second, and unanimous voice vote of acceptance by the membership.