martin f krafft <madduck@debconf.org> writes: > also sprach Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [2013.10.18.1656 +0200]: >> I don't know exactly how this would fit into the DC13 Final Report, >> but it might be good to say something about dgit. Here's what I >> just came up with: > > I'd say dgit is a splendid example of just what DebConf can enable. > As a lead to Ian's article, you could use the following: > > One of the most core purposes of DebConf is to bring together > developers face-to-face. It is not seldom that such meetings very > quickly turn productive. In the following case, it started out as > a lunch discussion over a piece of cardboard [there is a photo > somewhere] and two days later, Ian gave a talk on his project > "dgit", a promising contender to solve the problem of "decentralised > collaboration" in Debian. This field is of high importance to the > community, because it enables very flexible workflows. Here's what > Ian has to say himself: … > >> dgit is a new tool which allows any package to be downloaded, edited, >> and NMUed by someone who likes to use git. dgit's user does not need > > I'd say "uploaded" instead of NMUed. > And "the Git versioning system" instead of "git" > >> to know about or understand the maintainer's source code management >> practices. They simply edit the actual source package contents in >> git, and when they're done dgit will let them push (upload) the result > > You don't really "edit in git". I'd say "manage changes with Git" > (capitalised…) > > Comma after "done" > >> to the archive. >> >> Although dgit is all my own code, its design came out of a number of >> very intense discussions held at Debconf 13. I particularly want >> mention Joey Hess, who deserves at least half the credit for the >> conversation where we each came to the table with a different gigantic >> cloud castle which would never be implemented or deployed, and came >> away with the present design - small, immediately implementable and >> immediately deployable. > > I thought German had a monopoly on run-on sentences ;) > >> The first useable version of dgit was uploaded before the end of DC13. >> >> There is still much work to be done: in particular dgit does not yet >> work properly for Debian Maintainers or have a useable read-only mode. >> And its support for use by the package maintainer is not always good, >> depending on the maintainer's workflow. So it is presently mostly a >> tool for DD NMUers. > > I'd suggest to remove some of the tech-speek and shorten the > description. Maybe just the middle paragraph about the collaboration > with Joey suffices? Just in case someone is able to come up with a creative way to use them in the report, here are some photos of the inside-of-a-cardboard-box design notes that were done at the time: http://hands.com/~phil/dgit-design/P1020723.JPG http://hands.com/~phil/dgit-design/ They are pretty pale, so perhaps they could be used as the background for the text describing the event, with an explanatory footnote? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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