Missing notes, was Re: Notes from the Git Contributors' Summit 2021, virtual, Oct 19/20

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Team,
>
> we held our second all-virtual Summit over the past two days. It was the
> traditional unconference style meeting, with topics being proposed and
> voted on right before the introduction round. It was really good to see
> the human faces behind those email addresses.
>
> 32 contributors participated, and we spanned the timezones from PST to
> IST. To make that possible, the event took place on two days, from
> 1500-1900 UTC, which meant that the attendees from the US West coast had
> to get up really early, while it was past midnight in India at the end.
>
> I would like to thank all participants for accommodating the time, and in
> particular for creating such a friendly, collaborative atmosphere.
>
> A particular shout-out to Jonathan Nieder, Emily Shaffer and Derrick
> Stolee for taking notes. I am going to send out these notes in per-topic
> subthreads, replying to this mail.
>
> Day 1 topics:
>
> * Crazy (and not so crazy) ideas
> * SHA-256 Updates
> * Server-side merge/rebase: needs and wants?
> * Submodules and how to make them worth using
> * Sparse checkout behavior and plans
>
> Day 2 topics:
>
> * The state of getting a reftable backend working in git.git
> * Documentation (translations, FAQ updates, new user-focused, general
>   improvements, etc.)
> * Let's have public Git chalk talks

You might wonder why I did not send out the notes for this talk.

But that is not true! I sent it 6 times already, in various variations,
and it never came through (but I did get two nastygrams telling me that my
message was rejected because it apparently triggered a filter).

I shall keep trying, but my hopes are pretty low by now.

Ciao,
Johannes

> * Increasing diversity & inclusion (transition to `main`, etc)
> * Improving Git UX
> * Improving reviewer quality of life (patchwork, subsystem lists?, etc)
>
> A few topics were left for a later date (maybe as public Git chalk talks):
>
> * Making Git memory-leak free (already landed patches)
> * Scaling Git
> * Scaling ref advertisements
> * Config-based hooks (and getting there via migration ot hook.[ch] lib &
>   "git hook run")
> * Make git [clone|fetch] support pre-seeding via downloaded *.bundle files
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>