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Isaac (.ike) Levy
ike at blackskyresearch.net
Fri Oct 25 07:15:46 EDT 2013
On Oct 23, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:
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> All
> See below , should we ping Alfred and see if he is up for talking about this at the con ?
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> > On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Alfred Perlstein <
> alfred at freebsd.org
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello !
> >
> > At the November 7, 2013 devsummit I will giving a workshop/talk that will be a hands on walkthrough of how we manage our FreeBSD changes.
> >
> > The talk will cover:
> > 1) A discussion at very high level on how git works that will include a hands-on portion where we examine some of the git meta data.
> > We will cover how branches are made. How remote branches are handled.
> > The goal of this portion of the talk is to dispel much of the magic and worry when doing things with git.
> >
> > 2) How to take FreeNAS and migrate it to a newer version of FreeBSD.
> > We will cover the "git rebase" command.
> > The goal is to show how relatively easy it is move your code onto a newer version of FreeBSD.
> >
> > 3) Using github and your account.
> > We will cover "forking" on github and pushing the resulting work to your personal repository. We will then make some trivial changes to our custom version of FreeBSD/FreeNAS.
> > The goal is to show how easy it is to get an external developer access to your code with minimal administrative overhead.
> >
> > 4) QA
> > Floor will be open to git questions. It is not guaranteed that all answers will be known, but we will give it a shot.
> >
> > For this workshop the following preparation is asked:
> > 1) Perform a "git clone
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git
> " (note this can take about an hour and 1GB of space) onto a disk with decent access time. (no usb keys please).
> > 2) Create yourself a github account and write down the password.
> > 3) Setup an ssh key with github.
> >
> > The talk goes for about 1:30. Looking forward to seeing you all.
> >
> > -Alfred Perlstein
> > VP Software Engineering, iXsystems.
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I'd love to see Alfred Perlstein speak, yet I can't figure out if the talk is relevant for the con or not.
Could be excellent, could be too tangental.
What do folks here think?
Best,
.ike
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