Re: GitTogether topics status (4th of October)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 7, 2008, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20081007144643.GK8203@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081007031509.GA6031@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I just added two proposed half-hour meetings, both of which I intend to
> be a few minutes of me talking followed by group discussion. The topics
> are:
> 
>   1. Helping new developers join the git community

Oh, this is a good idea.  Yesterday I myself had trouble with
a new contributor not being familiar with the patching process.
Partly also my fault of still being a green maintainer.  ;-)

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>   2. What needs refactoring?
> 
>      I occasionally run up against parts of the code that just make my
>      eyes bleed everytime I touch them. I think we've made significant
>      progress in maintanability and bug-avoidance with things like the
>      strbuf library, refactoring of remote and transport handling, etc.
>      What areas might still benefit from such refactoring?

Also a good idea. I imagine Junio may have some interest in this. I certainly do. Some of the code is just bloodly aweful to work with. I guess those are the parts that make your eyes bleed.

-- 
Shawn.