| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Version Control Talk / BOF |
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All, The short story is: I would love to see a panel put together on version control, but I don't have the time to coordinate it. I am hoping someone would be interested in trying to coordinate this event. If you are interested, you can read on for the long story. One of the hot topics in the Eclipse community seems to be version control. When I looked to see how our coverage is within the program, I realized that we have almost no talks that address version control. My hope is that we could make two additions to the program that would focus on VCS. First, I would like to see a panel from various experts in Version Control that would examine the state of the art in version control and its role in modern development environments. I think this panel should have reps from four view points: - Eclipse community - Commercial version control vendors - OSS version control projects - OSS distributed version control projects My hope is the panel would focus on what is going on, what is possible and what works well for OSS communities. I don't see this as a foundation road map, blueprint or ass kicking panel, it is more of an informational discussion. Following the panel, I would like to see a VCS BOF that would be more focused on what the community can do. Obviously things aren't going to get solved, but it seems like a time for the interested parties to air their views and attempt to make plans for the future seems appropriate. So the BOF portion was easy. I could use a little help with putting together a panel. I don't know the individuals in this space at all. While I typically just bull my way in an apologize after I break things, I don't think this is the write approach for a panel. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time (billables to attend to) to come up to speed on this subject. So, is anyone interested in pulling together a panel on Version Control? Scott |