On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 20:30, Matthew Palmer wrote: > * Version Control Is Your Friend (30 min). Why you should learn a version > control system, and the basics (*very* basics) of using CVS. While the > world seems to be moving to subversion, CVS is still very widely used, and > the basic concepts I'll be showing should transfer fairly easily across to > other version control systems.
Erm, no. CVS concepts and idioms are broken and teach bad habits for any revision control system with oomph. I'll be happy to talk about real revision control (a la monotone/bitkeeper/arch/darcs) if wanted. (I'm ignoring your slightly misinformed 'world moving to svn' meme. > If people could let me know their votes by Wednesday sometime, I'll spend > some of Thursday and Friday getting notes put together for whatever talks > are decided on. I think for a bugsquish a talk on the BTS is good. And secondly, a 'how to fix a bug' talk - that is, not how to fix it for oneself, but how to get the fix up to the maintainer for them to upload (assuming that anyone doing NMU's already knows the ropes/policy). Lastly, a good thing to cover would be 'quality of fixes' - how to tell if your fix is actually The Right Way. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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