Domino had a concept of template (NTF) files. You could develop in those and apply them to a test environment. Then when development was complete you could refr

Domino had a concept of template (NTF) files. You could develop in those and apply them to a test environment. Then when development was complete you could refresh the designs of the production databases using the templates, with little or no down time. The problem was that the NTF was a big binary file. You couldn't really do effective team development with branching and merging of source code. We worked out some manual processes for copying and pasting pieces around to prevent conflicts, but it was a huge mess. IBM never really understood or prioritized the needs of Domino developers.