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

[From: David Greaves]

First off, I hope this didn't come across as insisting or complaining - I tried
to express that. Maybe 'mistake' was wrong - I just carried on writing :)

As much as anything I wanted to open discussions as to how important people felt
DVCS is. For me it's crucial for Mer and Qt - maybe not so much for others?

Jamie Bennett wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'll certainly do that.


> 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?

I kinda don't know how things are being set out - that sounds really good though
- maybe we can do a lightning talks beforehand to set the scene too (and
encourage attendance)?

Still interested in developer comments about DVCS processes too - what areas (if
any!) are of interest - if there's no interest then maybe it's not worth
worrying about.

David

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