[NCLUG] VCS howto - CRY FOR HELP

Ben West mrgenixus at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 21:39:55 MDT 2008


That sounds great.  See you there.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Paul Hummer <paul at eventuallyanyway.com>wrote:

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> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:35:31AM -0600, Ben West wrote:
> >> This is gonna go off-topic in a hurry... If that's posisble? ^^
> >>
> >> I-been chatting on the #chan with good part of you regular folks last
> couple
> >> days about launchpad and my management app, and I was thinking that
> while I
> >> cannot do so, it might be nice if someone who understands could give a
> talk
> >> on, say, how branching works in a VCS and how one does releases and
> such,
> >> and in my case, something more than a "lightning talk" would be a
> >> ppropriate.   Many of you are goinng to respond via the list, which is
> >> great, but I'd really like someone to just show me -- it might not make
> a
> >> difference to you, but a little hand-holding goes a long way for me
> toward
> >> understanding.  What's more, with what's going on with my side-business
> atm,
> >> I"m pretty busy, except as I take time out to do something specific
> (like
> >> this) so just having info from the list will probably never get me
> there.
> >>
>
> I'd be happy to sit down with you and show you my workflow.  It's highly
> customized and allows me to work very quickly with launchpad.  As I
> understand
> it, you'll be at the Python Class on next Thursday.  I'd be happy to demo
> something on the side for you.  It took me a while to really get a workflow
> that
> worked for me, so, rather than telling you about all the workflows, I'll
> just
> show you what I do.
>
> >> If somebody would be interested in just meeting me at everyday joes or
> the
> >> bean cycle and giving me a HOWTO, that would be fantastic.
> >>
> >> I'd really like to learn how this whole open-source community works, and
> any
> >> help would be great.
>
> Well, as much as I've been self promoting Launchpad, the community is
> really
> what makes Launchpad so great.  The fact that I have random people file
> bugs,
> and then attach a branch to the bug with the bugfix in it is amazingly
> cool.
>
> >
> > Actually, a talk on Mercury or Git would be great, as long as it's
> > informative and organized, and oriented toward teaching practical skills
> > rather than proselytizing or providing a survey of its characteristics or
> > how the presenter uses it.  I second the motion.
>
> If you're going to bring up mercurial and git, it's only fair to bring
> Bazaar
> into the panel.  :)
>
> - --
> Paul Hummer
>
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