dc9 - 0.5
DebConf9
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James Westby |
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| Day | DebConf day 7 (2009-07-30) |
| Room | BOF room - no video |
| Start time | 10:00 |
| Duration | 02:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 425 |
| Event type | workshop |
| Track | DebConf |
| Language | en |
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vcs-pkg.org workgroup
Drafting a roadmap for vcs-pkg.org
The vcs-pkg.org project aims to improve package maintenance in 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.
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.