On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:00 +0000, James Westby wrote: > So, a first proposal to get us going: a half-day BoF on vcs-pkg, > attempting first to define the problems the project should solve, and > then sketching out a roadmap to tackle them.
OK, it's a bit last minute, sorry, but here is a proposal that I will submit to debconf in 24 hours time, any feedback is welcome. -------------------- Event Title: vcs-pkg.org workgroup Subtitle: Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org Track: DebConf Event type: Workshop (or should it be BoF? There is no explanation) Abstract: The vcs-pkg.org project aims to improve package maintenance in distributed version control by providing both best practices and tools to support those practices. While there has been valuable discussion on the merits of various approaches to parts of the problem, the project lacks a clear plan of how it aims to achieve these goals. This workgroup will discuss the current state of the project, and come up with a proposal for a roadmap for the project which the project as a whole can then approve. Description: Aiming to provide a set of tools and workflows that work for most people, while remaining distribution and VCS agnostic is laudable, but requires solving many problems to achieve. Our knowledge of the available techniques and the problems to solve is still limited, and so the path from the current point to the final goal is unclear. Breaking the problem up and deciding which parts to tackle first will allow the project to move towards the target, and if done correctly will mean that there is useful output before the final goal is reached. The workgroup will asses the problem as we understand it today, and decide which problems to solve first, without attempting to solve the problems, though debate will certainly arise. As vcs-pkg.org is a cross-distribution project, and the choice of DebConf means that the workgroup will be almost entirely formed of people from Debian and Debian-based distributions, the output will be a proposal to take back to the rest of the project. Submission notes: We would appreciate having more than one hour for this topic, up to half a day if possible. --------------- If any DebConf attendees have a radically different proposal then I suggest you go ahead and submit it, as the deadline is on the 15th of this month, and we can then decide which of the proposals to withdraw afterwards (if any). Thanks, James _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list vcs-pkg-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss