On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:40:28PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > 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
OK then, Robert is doing a talk on "real version control" - and I'll be in the front row. > ignoring your slightly misinformed 'world moving to svn' meme. OK, I'll amend it to "the CVS world is moving to subversion, and the Real Hackers are moving to Arch"... <g> > > 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. Not a bad one. Use of the tools - diff, patch, etc, feeding it back to the maintainer, and patch testing. Add that one to the list, voters. <g> - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
