Here I am at the Subversion Developer’s Summit at Google in Mountain View. Looks like clkao and I are giving a talk on SVK today or tomorrow.
Subversion prides it on being a respectful community — Ben Collins-Sussman mentioned in his opening spiel that it was one of the big factors in Subversion’s success. I’m happy to report that these are not lies, and that these are pretty great folks.
Yesterday, we dropped by Google to hack for a while. My first plan was to work on my Advanced Algorithms homework. That plan quickly changed to hacking on ZVM, a Python Z-Machine implementation. Turned out there were at least two of us not already on board with ZVM who had implemented Z-Machines before!
We got distracted away from that pretty quickly by noticing that there were a whole lot of changes nominated in the Subversion 1.4.1 STATUS file that really needed to be reviewed and backported in order to get the release out. So we took a couple hours and got the 1.4.x branch to an almost release-worthy state. Maybe tonight!
In a long discussion about distributed version control last night at Karl Fogel’s, most folks realized that none of us had really spent serious time working with a distributed version control system. (Well, other than SVK, which honestly already has most of the features we were talking about…) To get more experience, we’re going to play around with Mercurial during the Summit.
There’s going to be a shared developer’s blog for reporting on the summit, if interested.
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