Hey folks, On Sunday night, we held an informal meeting among vcs-pkg folks to talk a little bit about where we are, in preparation of Thursday's roadmapping BoF.
I expected five people and somewhere around 25 or so showed up, which was great. I had not prepared anything and so we engaged in a discussion round again. Thanks a lot to the video team for showing up at such a late hour, and even though video didn't make any sense, you made it possible for people at home to participate. I promised I'd send a short summary of the five issues discussed, so here it comes: 1. standardising interfaces: we will not develop *the* workflow, and if we did, it would not get accepted. Instead, we want to define interfaces to make it possible for people across distros and VCSs to exchange and track information. 2. concepts and entities: one of the main contributions we need to make is to define exactly the concepts and vocabulary with which we are working, so that there is a common basis and e.g. a common understanding of what exactly is a patch or a modification, and what does it mean to track that across time. 3. patch metadata: what are patch metadata and how should/could they be standardised? How are they merged? Is the patch purpose something for the consumer to decide, or to what degree should a distro isolate patches that are distro-specific? 4. stay on the ground: we need to ask ourselves what makes sense. Are feature branches overkill? How many conflicts do we actually expect throughout the maintenance cycle of a package? Do we want to cater for cross-VCS exchange? Many such questions need to be considered when making a roadmap. 5. abstraction: NMUers and others are faced numerous different systems, from VCS to patch and build systems. It would be nice if there were some sort of abstraction or standardisation. Defining interfaces makes it possible for different tools to co-exist, but there should be one default so that the users don't need to be confronted with too much choice. I hope this was all. If you have anything to add, please do. See you Thursday at 10 in the BoF room. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the unexamined life is not worth living" -- platon
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