From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: GitTogether topics status (4th of October) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:46:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20081007144643.GK8203@spearce.org> References: <200810041816.41026.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <20081007031509.GA6031@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Christian Couder , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Scott Chacon , Sam Vilain , Petr Baudis To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 07 16:50:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KnDr4-0005PE-Qw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:48:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752928AbYJGOqp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:46:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752754AbYJGOqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:46:44 -0400 Received: from george.spearce.org ([209.20.77.23]:42622 "EHLO george.spearce.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752612AbYJGOqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:46:44 -0400 Received: by george.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 29E823835F; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081007031509.GA6031@coredump.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > I just added two proposed half-hour meetings, both of which I intend to > be a few minutes of me talking followed by group discussion. The topics > are: > > 1. Helping new developers join the git community Oh, this is a good idea. Yesterday I myself had trouble with a new contributor not being familiar with the patching process. Partly also my fault of still being a green maintainer. ;-) > 2. What needs refactoring? > > I occasionally run up against parts of the code that just make my > eyes bleed everytime I touch them. I think we've made significant > progress in maintanability and bug-avoidance with things like the > strbuf library, refactoring of remote and transport handling, etc. > What areas might still benefit from such refactoring? Also a good idea. I imagine Junio may have some interest in this. I certainly do. Some of the code is just bloodly aweful to work with. I guess those are the parts that make your eyes bleed. -- Shawn.