~kanarip

Fridays big event was a Pragmatic Source Code Management workshop, where amongst other things I emphasized the importance of consistent changesets, branching, tagging, using distributed version control systems or not, and what some of the advantages or disadvantages are.

As demo-case(s), I basically opened up a few Subversion and GIT repositories I had stored on my laptop, and showed the audience some of the different workflows implemented with various projects like anaconda (very operating system version specific branching), or vmime (which originally isn't a GIT repository, but where we have upstream, downstream with patches, and then some of the patches having been accepted upstream but not others).

Additionally, we worked on a couple of real-life use-cases where each time the question was, "How would you like to see this situation improved, and what tooling or process could or would you use?"

Some time after the meeting I'm in right now (FAD EMEA 2009), and a very interesting and intensive Red Hat VDI implementation project, I'll make sure that I post some of the slides or notes I think are interesting.

Two new exciting workshops on the agenda, besides the one I've told you about before.

In the portfolio are, already:

• Deploying Linux (that's the official title, it's all Cobbler under the hood, doh!)
• Configuration Management (again, the official title, it's all Puppet under the hood)
• Software Packaging (ohw I do like these official titles... This of course is just RPM Packaging)

The workshop on Free Software, Open Source and Open Standards is going to be repeated August 14th, this time the audience will be internal colleagues of the company I work for, rather then customers :P. This workshop demos a complete Office Automation and Infrastructure based on Free Software, Open Source and Open Standards, and you get to digg in and get your hands dirty (if you want to), or stay on the safe side of the desktop (behind the keyboard - clicky-di-click).

The first new workshop, scheduled August 25th, is going to set you up with expertise knowledge of, and hands on experience with... Security Enhanced Linux. That vague thing that is so awesome but bugz you once or twice too often before you silence it forever (by disabling it). After this workshop I bet you you will tell your grandma to enable the sweetness.

The second new and exciting workshop, scheduled September 25th, is on Pragmatic Source Code Management (or GIT, bwuhaha!). I have a shorter session planned as an introduction as to the why and when and how for Pragmatic SCM, in cooperation with the Programming- and Web-technology focus group (which I'm a part of as well), so this workshop is going to be great!

BTW, if you have any suggestions for either of these workshops, feel free to leave a comment!