20110213 GitWorkflowAgenda

Agenda for the February 13 KDE Core Git Workflow meeting

Agenda

• 3rd party examples we can learn from:
  • CMake http://public.kitware.com/Wiki/Git/Workflow/Topic
  • Qt: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/CommitPolicy
  • Videolan: http://wiki.videolan.org/Git
  • Others?
• Topic branches
  • strategy overview
  • git recipes for the common cases
• Bug fix strategy
  • dealing with an unmergable 4.6
  • 4.7 and beyond
• Handling trivial changes
  • require branches, allow direct to an integration branch or even master?
• Other common tasks that we should offer nice little recipes for?
• Adapting http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/SVN_Commit_Policy
• Using content from http://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/GitKdeOrgManual
• Identifying other pages on techbase that need work
• First draft of workflow documentation
• Commit template
• Recommended Git config settings
• branch names, auto-completion and other bash/zsh magic, e.g. http://blogs.oracle.com/linuxnstuff/2010/05/recommended_git-completionbash.html

Attendees

• Aaron Seigo (aseigo)
• Anne-Marie Mahfouf (annma)
• Casian Andrei (skelet)
• Ekie Heine (Sho)
• Eli MacKenzie (argonel)
• Giulio Camuffo (giucam)
• Ian Monroe (eean)
• John Layt (jlayt)
• Kurt Hindenburg (khindenburg)
• Sune Vuorela (svuorela)
• Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
• Thomas Baumgart (ipwizard)
• Tom Albers (toma)