Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Sebastien Douche]

Hi Junio,
I'm starting a french blog[1] on git to support workshops[2]. The goal
is to explain deeply the philosophy, the commands and subcommands,
workflows, etc. And also to aggregate headlines of the git world,
follow events and announce git releases. For the latter, it's a bit
hard (for a non core developer) to follow the development. From your
point of view, how we could set up a roadmap and a "what's new"?



[1] http://blog.gitfr.net
[2] 100% free, with 50 attendees for the first workshop, 70 for the second!


-- 
Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>
Twitter: @sdouche (agile, lean, python, git, open source)

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 13:53, Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm starting a french blog[1] on git to support workshops[2]. The goal
> is to explain deeply the philosophy, the commands and subcommands,
> workflows, etc. And also to aggregate headlines of the git world,
> follow events and announce git releases. For the latter, it's a bit
> hard (for a non core developer) to follow the development. From your
> point of view, how we could set up a roadmap and a "what's new"?

Projects that have a "Roadmap" are usually the ones that have paid
developers, where someone will centrally plan what things get worked
on. Then assign developers to those tasks.

Git is a free software project. So it can't have a "Roadmap" in the
same sense.

What we'll end up implementing is a function of what patches people
send, and which of those patches end up passing review and get into
git.git.

You can get something like a roadmap just by following what people are
working on, and asking them what they want to do next.

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Sebastien Douche]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 14:38, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi  Ævar,
thank you for your response.

> Projects that have a "Roadmap" are usually the ones that have paid
> developers, where someone will centrally plan what things get worked
> on. Then assign developers to those tasks.

It's a bit surprising that you (the core devs) haven't any ideas on
the future versions. But roadmap is maybe a misleading word, I talk to
leverage a bit the visibility of the project for users. It's not a
major point, "what's cooking" is a nice overview (understand it is a
different kettle of fish).

> What we'll end up implementing is a function of what patches people
> send, and which of those patches end up passing review and get into
> git.git.

Cool.

> You can get something like a roadmap just by following what people are
> working on, and asking them what they want to do next.

Understood. I will make it.


BTW, congrats. Git is a wonderful piece of software.




-- 
Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>
Twitter: @sdouche (agile, lean, python, git, open source)

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Jakub Narebski]

Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm starting a french blog[1] on git to support workshops[2]. The goal
> is to explain deeply the philosophy, the commands and subcommands,
> workflows, etc. And also to aggregate headlines of the git world,
> follow events and announce git releases. For the latter, it's a bit
> hard (for a non core developer) to follow the development. From your
> point of view, how we could set up a roadmap and a "what's new"?
> 
> [1] http://blog.gitfr.net

There is Junio's blog which sometimes contain interesting bits about git:

  http://gitster.livejournal.com/


There is also "A git blog looking to be official" (with announcements
and git top links, etc)

  http://gitlog.wordpress.com/



I know that it doesn't really answer your question, but Git User's Surveys
included question about what features one would want in Git, see for example

  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can get something like a roadmap just by following what people are
>> working on, and asking them what they want to do next.
>
> Understood. I will make it.

Any chance you can revive the "Git Chronicles" [1]?

Junio is too busy to update it (see his reply in [1]). I'm sure it
would be really appreciated.

[1] http://mid.gmane.org/201007081057.51946.jnareb@gmail.com
-- 
Duy

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Sebastien Douche]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 15:05, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>  http://gitster.livejournal.com/
>  http://gitlog.wordpress.com/
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010

thank you Jakub for the links but I know all ;)


-- 
Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>
Twitter: @sdouche (agile, lean, python, git, open source)

Re: Git roadmap (How read What's cooking in git.git)

[Sebastien Douche]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 16:07, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any chance you can revive the "Git Chronicles" [1]?
>>
>> Junio is too busy to update it (see his reply in [1]). I'm sure it
>> would be really appreciated.
>>
>> [1] http://mid.gmane.org/201007081057.51946.jnareb@gmail.com
>
> There was also one issue of "Git Traffic", a spin-off now also defunct
> for quite a long time "Kernel Traffic":
>
>  http://www.kerneltraffic.org/git/index.html
>
> It was meant to summarize events on git mailing list.
>
>
> See also (quite out-of-date):
>
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitLinks#Mailing_list_digests

(about Git Chronicles and Git Traffic)
Unfortunately, my english is broken, that's why I would make the same
in French. If a found a translator, I would be happy to create a
englsh version.


Cheers.


-- 
Sebastien Douche <sdouche@gmail.com>
Twitter: @sdouche (agile, lean, python, git, open source)