From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:00:24 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th Message-ID: <7v7h5k2hlj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110907193006.GB13364@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > I think that's reasonable, especially as we grow. However, one of the > valuable things (for me, anyway) in previous GitTogethers is throwing > all of these people together to some degree. I'm not terribly interested > in day-to-day Gerrit issues, but sometimes the discussions start from > some minor Gerrit annoyance, and we end up realizing that the right > solution involves changes at a more fundamental layer, and all of git is > better as a result. I'd hate to lose that developer/user interaction. Same here, as I have been meaning to gauge interests from non-Gerrit people on issues identified in Gerrit land (e.g. expand-refs). > Maybe we can be segmented for part of the conference, and then bring > everybody together for other parts. I dunno. I guess that involves > predicting which parts will be useful for everybody to be together. Also we would need to predict what parts we will have to begin with ;-).