Re: Plans for git

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 9:41 AM Pete Wright <pete_at_nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
> >> making quarterly reports about this for almost a years as well. We put
> out
> >> calls for people to help with the efforts about the same time. We have
> >> tried at every step of the way to be open and honest that this was
> going to
> >> happen.
> > All developer centric communications....
>
> I would argue that quarterly reports are actually one of the few methods
> of getting accurate information about the state of the project as a
> non-insider.  i've been following the progress of this work via the
> quarterly status reports for years now, and as someone who is merely a
> freebsd operator felt like i was more or less kept up to date on this
> eventuality.
>

Plus the git list also gave status updates and it was public and mentioned
in the reports.


> honestly there has to be *some* responsibility of operators to at least
> make an effort to keep up to date on the status of the various efforts
> in such a large project.  and as an outsider the idea that comms can
> only happen on the mailing list isn't the greatest - how am i to know
> that the idea of one person on the ML carries more weight than another,
> or one persons opinion is the "official" stated opinion of the core group?
>

And to be honest, we'd planned on a final PR push once we had a confirmed
date with enough lead time for people to adjust.

Be all that as it may, I've finished up the first of a series of videos.
This one talks about the fundamental differences between the two in 4
minutes. Future videos will delve into details of how it affects different
segments of our community: users, developers, integrators, etc.
https://youtu.be/Lx9lKr_M-DI if you want to take a look. The next one will
be one on why (though it largely rehashes this thread and the blog post I
made, again in about 4 minutes).

Warner