[Charlug] Tuesday night meeting?

[Kevin Williams]

I  would say Distributed Source Control Management (DSCM) and SVN. I don't
mean to start a flame war or anything, Git/Mercurial/bazzar (others as well)
have all founnd their nitch. As a frequently mercurial user, I found it very
useful. Even using it to float code upstream to a SVN store. All
implementations of DSCMS do basically same function, and  all have
facilities to interact with SVN. I feel the DSCMS (client) / SVN (server)
model will only grow stronger where developer's local or frontend SCM stores
are becoming integral to their dev environment.
We could list the "common" task before the meeting through the mailing list,
and discuss the different approaches we use with our favorite SCM. Naturally
depending on the project we choose, and the tasks there will be advantages
and disadvantages to each, but it will be fun to tackle the problem together
over pizza.

--
Shem Hotep ("I go in peace")
-Kevin D. Williams

"Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have
found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must
speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our
limited vision, but we must speak." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- April
4, 1967


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Leam Hall <leam at reuel.net> wrote:

> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>
>> Leam Hall wrote:
>>
>>> 1. The Charlotte Python group seems run by Dinesh the recruiter and some
>>> porn stuff.
>>>
>>
>> Huh?  (Can you say this again with different words?)
>>
>
> Sure:  http://groups.google.com/group/charpy
>
>
>  4. SQLite, Subversion, and maybe other really successful applications
>>> have authors or core developers in the local area (yeah Richard and
>>> Michael, I'm looking at you); how much are we capitalizing on that?
>>>
>>
>> Ahem.  I don't know what it feels like to be capitalized upon, but if it=
's
>> anything like a back massage, count me in!
>>
>
> Well...lots of ways to interpret that, I guess. :P
>
> There are two major version control systems that have people's attention,
> Subversion and Git. CVS is a good third because of AnonCVS access on many
> projects but localized stuff tends to be Subversion and Linux kernel (et =
al)
> in Git.
>
> On the one hand, the Internet is great for building international
> communities. On the other, there are things you don't normally communicate
> about on-line. Face time is good in the latter case and buying someone a
> soda/coffee/beer when they're really down does more than a snippet of code
> amongst dozens more. Fifteen minutes of explaining Subversion at work bea=
ts
> a chapter or three of most books when someone is learning.
>
> My theory, subject to facts, is that the localized *UG community can
> operate in personable ways to support our existing project folks and insp=
ire
> more of us to grow in capabilities and competence.
>
> Here are some examples:
>
> 1. Subversion pizza party. We skim a few tutorials, show up with some pie,
> and gets a hands on course in putting something honking big into subversi=
on,
> making changes, etc. All those things you need to do in real life at work=
 to
> show the tool's awesomeness.
>
> 2. Use SVN and SQLite in local stuff so we get more hands on with it, and
> can then evangelize the unwashed masses. Mentor junior geeks where
> appropriate, publish stuff as learning and marketing.
>
> That make any sense?
>
> Leam
>
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