Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal that I will submit to debconf in 24 hours time, any feedback is welcome. Thanks! Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) I think it should be a

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi James, just a small issue: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) Abstract:

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:31 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Hi James, just a small issue: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:26:31PM +0100, James Westby wrote: Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type:

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net [2009.04.13.2326 +0200]: If any DebConf attendees have a radically different proposal then I suggest you go ahead and submit it, as the deadline is on the 15th of this month, and we can then decide which of the proposals to withdraw afterwards

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:41:51AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I always try to say modern VCS, instead of distributed. The problem with SVN and all the other centralised VCS is not that they are centralised, but that they basically don't know what merges are. They pretend to merge, and SVN

Re: Debconf

2009-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jan Hauke Rahm i...@jhr-online.de [2009.04.14.1146 +0200]: Interesting point. Let's say we keep that field open until there is an idea of implementation that would actually work. We can drop support for VCSs and distros then if needed. ;-) Absolutely. I definitely did not mean to