[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg "developers conference"

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:31:00AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>> 
>> On 6/18/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:52:24PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> > > While were having a good time at LinuxTag recently, it occurred to
>> > > someone that we wouldn't need LinuxTag just to have some fun.  The
>> > > idea would be to pick a city and a weekend to meet up and discuss
>> > > FFmpeg, do some coding, and eat and drink a bit.  To me it sounds like
>> > > a great idea.
>> > >
>> > > If we want to do any coding in a sensible way, we'd need some room
>> > > suitable for this.  I'm thinking it should be possible to get access
>> > > to something at a university somewhere.  Perhaps some of our students
>> > > have suggestions?
>> > >
>> > > The only other criterion for a city I can think is good air
>> > > connections with our respective home towns (especially Southampton ;-)
>> > >
>> > > Who else likes this idea?
>> >
>> > I like the idea, I proposed it at LinuxTag after all :)
>> >
>> > Somewhere in Germany would likely be a good place given how central it
>> > is and how many devs come from there.
>> 
>> Funny how everyone is proposing to do this get-together next to where he lives.
>> So I'll do my share:
>> 
>> How about doing it in Frogistan?

That would suit me too.

>> > Some sort of youth hostel or
>> > similar lodging might also work fine.  We could take the repositories
>> > with us for the weekend and set up a LAN if we really wanted ...
>> 
>> No need to take the central repository, thanks to GIT ;-)
>
> You seem to be under the impression that there will be no central
> repository with git.  This is wrong.

Of course there will still be a central repository if/when we move to
git.  That doesn't mean we can't set up a temporary git repo on a LAN
without proper Internet access, and push the changes back when we have
net access again.  We could even do this with git-svn.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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