[scm-migration-dev] KTD slides so far

2007-08-03 Thread Stephen Lau
Danek Duvall wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:08:59PM -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > >> Mike Kupfer wrote: >>> Slides 3, 10: I'm not a fan of random artwork unless there's some >>> relevance to the material on the slide. It's okay to just leave the >>> space blank. (Slide 13, OTOH, is great.) >>

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2007-08-03 Thread Danek Duvall
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:08:59PM -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: > > Slides 3, 10: I'm not a fan of random artwork unless there's some > > relevance to the material on the slide. It's okay to just leave the > > space blank. (Slide 13, OTOH, is great.) > > They are supposed to b

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2007-08-02 Thread Richard Lowe
Bill Sommerfeld writes: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:02 -0600, Jim Walker wrote: >> Will we need to "lock" the Hg gate for big putbacks like we do now >> with the Teamware gate? > > Yes. > > The reason for locking the gate for large putbacks is to lock out small > conflicting changes which would re

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2007-08-02 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:02 -0600, Jim Walker wrote: > Will we need to "lock" the Hg gate for big putbacks like we do now > with the Teamware gate? Yes. The reason for locking the gate for large putbacks is to lock out small conflicting changes which would require a merge/build/test cycle.

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2007-08-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "stevel" == Stephen Lau writes: stevel> They are supposed to be mercury and cadmium Aha! stevel> I can take 'em out if people want. I just had some blank space stevel> to fill and thought it might be neat. Sure, keep 'em. We just need to mention what they are when we get to those slide

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2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Slides 3, 10: I'm not a fan of random artwork unless there's some > relevance to the material on the slide. It's okay to just leave the > space blank. (Slide 13, OTOH, is great.) They are supposed to be mercury and cadmium; but perhaps that isn't obvious. :) I can take 'em

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2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Jim Walker wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Jim> - Why don't we have an external clone? Is the readable >> Jim> clone/writable gate not needed anymore? >> >> stevel> Yup, it's not needed anymore. >> >> The last I heard Stephen Hahn talk about this, he liked the idea of >> having a semi-stable nightly

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2007-08-02 Thread Mark J. Nelson
>> Will we need to "lock" the Hg gate for big putbacks like we do now >> with the Teamware gate? > > Yes. > > The reason for locking the gate for large putbacks is to lock out small > conflicting changes which would require a merge/build/test cycle. But we're talking about two different things, I

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2007-08-02 Thread Mark J. Nelson
> Jim> I was talking with Mark Nelson about the clone, and he mentioned > Jim> that in the reasons they have an active clone: > [...] > Jim> 1. reduces locking issues (teamware issues) > Jim> 2. more stable than gate (ie. changed only once a day) > Jim> 3. reduces traffic on gate (ie. pulls are do

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2007-08-02 Thread Jim Walker
Mike Kupfer wrote: > [added Mark to the cc list] > >> "Jim" == Jim Walker writes: > > Jim> I was talking with Mark Nelson about the clone, and he mentioned > Jim> that in the reasons they have an active clone: > [...] > Jim> 1. reduces locking issues (teamware issues) > Jim> 2. more stable t

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2007-08-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "Jim" == Jim Walker writes: Jim> 3. reduces traffic on gate (ie. pulls are done most of the time) Mike> Is point 3 related to system-level contention issues, Jim> Yep. If I/O contention isn't an issue then 3 doesn't apply to Hg. AFAIK, we don't have much in the way of measurements in thi

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2007-08-02 Thread Jim Walker
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Jim> - Why don't we have an external clone? Is the readable > Jim> clone/writable gate not needed anymore? > > stevel> Yup, it's not needed anymore. > > The last I heard Stephen Hahn talk about this, he liked the idea of > having a semi-stable nightly snapshot--something that

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2007-08-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
[added Mark to the cc list] > "Jim" == Jim Walker writes: Jim> I was talking with Mark Nelson about the clone, and he mentioned Jim> that in the reasons they have an active clone: [...] Jim> 1. reduces locking issues (teamware issues) Jim> 2. more stable than gate (ie. changed only once a da

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2007-08-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
Slides 3, 10: I'm not a fan of random artwork unless there's some relevance to the material on the slide. It's okay to just leave the space blank. (Slide 13, OTOH, is great.) Slide 6: I would change the access control bullet to "Different access control model", since I think that's the high-orde

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2007-08-02 Thread Mike Kupfer
> "stevel" == Stephen Lau writes: Jim> Slide 4: Jim> - We need to plug training into the equation. We won't Jim> be successful unless people know how to use the new tools. stevel> Yeah - this is only half (if that) of the KTD so far. The stevel> training comes in the second half (e.g.: the

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2007-08-02 Thread Jim Walker
Steve, Here's a few comments... - You may want to be less hard on Teamware and remove: slide 1: "teamware is dead, long live mercurial" slide 11: "made Teamware suck less" Some people may take offense Slide 3: - I would list specific reasons why we are changing to Mercurial and not just leave it

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2007-08-02 Thread Stephen Lau
Jim Walker wrote: > Steve, > > Here's a few comments... > > - You may want to be less hard on Teamware and remove: > slide 1: "teamware is dead, long live mercurial" > slide 11: "made Teamware suck less" > Some people may take offense Sure > Slide 3: > - I would list specific reasons why we are

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2007-08-01 Thread Stephen Lau
Here's what I have so far if people want to start reviewing it. I'll continue to work on them this morning - but thought I might as well send out what I have. Feedback appreciated. and many many thanks to Mike for his work on the outline - that made it considerably easier to work on this. on