[maemo-developers] The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

[From: Jamie Bennett]

Please see my comments in-line below.

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:57 +0100, David Greaves wrote:
> I proposed a talk at the summit on DVCS and git and it has not been accepted by
> the talk selection group. This isn't a complaint  :)     . . . . .   however I
> do worry that it might be a mistake... what do you think?

Its good to bring any doubts about the selection process out to a wider
audience, thanks. I'll try to explain why _I_ voted a no (although it
wasn't a definite no, see below).

You have another talk, "An Alternative to Autobuilder/Scratchbox" which
would be a talk, in your own words, "about the processes around Mer
builds, access controls, managing integration with our DVCS (git),
acceleration tricks and generally how to make good use of things you
find lying about on the web."

Now I see this as overlapping somewhat with the DVCS talk and my
suggestion was to combine the two to give a higher level but more
complete picture of development with the current tools we have.

> I personally thing think that as a development community with git on garage and
> gitorious.org we should be making efforts to understand how best to use DVCS
> processes to collaborate.

Agreed, see below.

> Maybe it's just me but I see a lot of devs who are new to DVCS and very few
> community guidelines on how to use DVCS. Qt uses it but, as we've recently been
> discussing, it could be going better.
> 
> Frankly I don't care which 'good practice' I use - I can go out and find lots of
> them. But it strikes me that as a community we should at least say "hey, quite a
> few of us are using this approach - if you don't have any strong preferences
> then you can use it too"

But does this admiral goal translate well to a presentation or something
else?

I see this not as a presentation, but more of a collaborative effort
with like-minded individuals hence I suggest a BOF. We have a lot of
physical space at the Summit. I'm sure we can get room for a BOF session
on DVCS practices with the results presented in a lightening talk the
next day and reported on the wiki. How does that sound?

> David

Regards,
Jamie.
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