Re: git/cogito workshop/bof at linuxconf au?

Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 01:33:53AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] told me that...

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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And how are things lining up for the upcoming one (January 2006, Dunedin, NZ)?  

Dunno yet. I have a policy of trying to travel with the whole family,
which means I'll have to decide whether I'm willing to put that much money
into it, or whether some poor unsuspecting company can help sponsor me ;)
We'll see.

BTW, I've asked my unsuspecting company. I'll see too. ;-)

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There's a lot of interest, but the barriers of entry are somewhat
high, with the codebase moving fast, and some of the concepts
requiring re-learning of what to expect from an SCM. Perhaps no so
much among kernel hackers, but the general populace is largely still
laden with cvs/svn and their mindset.

Yeah. We do not have a nice paper explaining the concepts and usage. The 
tutorial isn't really in-depth enough (it doesn't even mention a lot of 
the helper scripts or even some of the core stuff). The old README started 
out explaining some of the concepts, but it's _way_ of out date in all 
usage respects.

Pasky has the Overview thing, which gets pointed to by kernel.org, and 
which could be expanded upon a lot. 

I wanted to offer a Git/Cogito tutorial session (Is that what is meant
by "workshop"? I'm no skilled conference traveller and the website
mentions no workshops.), but on a second thought paper might be better -
Cogito is supposed to be so simple to use that a tutorial wouldn't give
you much (except tutorial.txt since I would have a strong incentive to
write it), and Git concepts aren't tutorial material. So I might try to
apply with a paper giving some overview of the new wave of "modern"
version control systems, with a special focus on GIT design and core
interface. (I will probably skip the core GIT plumbing since I'm
naturally a bit sceptical about it. ;-)

I also imagined a BOF session for more interested people (if there would
be any), for discussing advanced topics, possible further development
directions (see also the Cogito TODO for also some Git-related stuff I
have on my mind but is not yet ready for mailing list bashing) etc.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching
someone.  -- Alan Cox