Hi, I have been meaning to write this up for a long time now, since I vaguely made a promise to do so last Debconf. I have also been wondering about the inefficiencies in my work-flow, but I kept postponing my analysis since there were still large gaps in my packaging automation since I moved off Arch as my SCM of choice. However, recently I have taken a sabbatical from Debian, so I've had time to complete bits and pieces of my package building framework, enough so that I could no longer justify putting off the analysis. I tried writing it up, but the result confused even me; so I instead recorded every shell command during a recent series of packaging tasks, and converted that into a nice, detailed, activity diagram that you see over here. This is as efficient a work-flow as I have been able to come up with.
http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj//blog/2009/02/25/A_day_in_the_life_of_a_Debian_hacker/ Along with a git commit hook script, that parses the commit log and adds pending tags to bugs closed in the commit, the figure above represents my complete work-flow -- down to the details of every /cd/ command I executed. I think there are too many steps still. Feedback and commentary would be appreciated, as well as any suggestions to improve efficiency. manoj ps: I updated http://vcs-pkg.org/index.html to add a link to this blog post. I must figure out how to enable comments on my blog -- An optimist is a man who looks forward to marriage. A pessimist is a married optimist. Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss