I now have a 15 minute Fossil speaking slot at the Melbourne X User Group (http://groups.google.com.au/group/mxug) on 21/Oct
I am preparing some slides which I'll share. (BWT I did a 5 min lightening talk at Software Freedom Day 09 here in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago) 2009/8/13 Stephan Beal <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Alec Clews <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am at the SAGE AU 2009 conference tomorrow and thought I'd do a >> lighting talk on Fossil-SCM > > If the talk hasn't already happened, i think it is very worth mentioning how > big of a step it is that sqlite3 is now hosted in fossil. sqlite is, in my > experience, one of the least-understood, least-appreciated components of a > system, yet also ever-present. i use it daily for all sorts of stuff, yet > most of my colleagues have never heard of it, or only heard of it in > passing. It is, as the sqlite home page describes, quite probably the most > widely distributed database system in the world, and the fact that fossil > was able to import it "as is", and that future development will happen > through fossil, is a very important milestone, IMO. The repo stats: > > http://www.sqlite.org/src/stat > > speak volumes about fossil's ability to handle a mid-sized project (some > would call sqlite "large", but i reserve that description for projects like > OpenOffice and the Linux kernel). > > @Richard: i would be interested in hearing whether or not there has been any > trouble getting the sqlite3 developers to switch systems. (i don't follow > the dev list - i'm just client.) > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Alec Clews Personal <[email protected]> Melbourne, Australia. Jabber: [email protected] PGPKey ID: 0x9BBBFC7C blog:http://alecthegeek.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
