I’m interested in this. The AC and others have been pushing git,
and I had the (unpleasant) experience of presenting this request to the Board
in December.
I’d be happy to facilitate the panel and find folks to cover the
VCS systems.
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[mailto:eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Rosenbaum
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:45 AM
To: Eclipsecon Program Committee list
Subject: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Version Control Talk
/BOF
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
