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

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi David,

Perhaps it's best to explain the thinking behind the current status of
the presentation (which is still listed as "Wait & see", not rejected)
to frame the discussion:

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?

The comments on the wiki page are:

> DVCS? git? - How does that work then?
> 
> I'm going to suggest that this talk be combined with David's other
> talk (An Alternative to Autobuilder/Scratchbox) rather than be a
> separate entity. -- baloo 13:32, 26 August 2009
> I agree with Jamie's suggestion. -- Valério Valério 17:48, 26 August
2009
> Me too. No to this as stand-alone. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009

So we do like the idea of you presenting DVCS tools, but feel that the
best place for this is part of a "tools" presentation - which you're
already accepted for ("alternative to autouilder/scratchbox") - you
could present Suse's Open Build System *and* DVCS fundamentals in one
presentation slot.

Alternatively, there is another proposal about DVCS (specifically git &
gitorious) and from discussions we had yesterday, we seem to be leaning
towards accepting one of the two presentations in its own right.

> 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.

<snip>

> However we also have Johan Sørensen (cc'd as I don't think he's on-list) who
> wrote Gitorious.org - I think having him speak on using git and gitorious would
> be an opportunity that we shouldn't miss.

See comments above. I suspect, given demand, that there will be one DVCS
presentation, unless my two colleagues on the content committee are
against it.

Thanks!
Dave.

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