Re: git/cogito workshop/bof at linuxconf au?

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 13, 2005, 23:05 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f905081316056e83ebec@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508131111270.19049@g5.osdl.org>

On 8/14/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> I was planning to be there. I like lca, but passed it over this year
> because of it being in Canberra

And how are things lining up for the upcoming one (January 2006, Dunedin, NZ)?

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> > I would gladly try and organize a workshop, but I am far from fluent
> > with git, so I won't go at it alone. Any takers? Call for papers ends
> > 5th September, not too far ahead. We have to register our interest
> > _now_.
> 
> I'm no good with papers, though.

Workshops and BOFs don't need to be paper-backed at all. Though it's not unlikely that someone with an interest in SCM theory would write a paper covering git. I think the main interest would be to bring git practical usage to the masses.

There's a lot of interest, but the barriers of entry are somewhat high, with the codebase moving fast, and some of the concepts requiring re-learning of what to expect from an SCM. Perhaps no so much among kernel hackers, but the general populace is largely still laden with cvs/svn and their mindset.

cheers,

martin