[PLUG] [plug-announce] Wed Dec 4 - PLUG Central - "Greenlight Is A Git Branch Merging Service" by Mark Jason Dominus (7pm at USP)

[Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Just a reminder that PLUG Central meets tomorrow night with Mark Jason
Dominus speaking on "Greenlight Is A Git Branch Merging Service".

Walt

On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 06:34:56PM -0500, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug wrote:
> ------------------ PLEASE NOTE ------------------
> If the doors to Griffith Hall are locked, USP
> security will let you into the building if you
> call them. Please see below in this message for
> full instructions.
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> PLUG Central will be meeting on Wednesday, December 4 at USP in
> Philadelphia, beginning at 7pm. Directions to the meeting location at
> the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia can be found at the end
> of this email.
> 
> This month, PLUG welcomes back Mark Jason Dominus for his quasi-annual
> December visit. Mark will be giving a talk entitled "Greenlight Is A
> Git Branch Merging Service". Mark is Principal Engineer at
> ZipRecruiter, Inc.
> 
>   Our company's old production deployment strategy was “land whatever
>   the heck you want on the Git `master` branch, and it will go to
>   production”. As we grew from 15 developers to 250 this started to
>   have some problems. (“Some problems”. Yow!) But what should we do
>   instead? And how to get people to actually do it? Even harder, how
>   do we get them to like doing it? Whatever process we design, people
>   will have to deal with it every day, and if it isn't frictionless
>   they will despise it.
> 
>   The result was Greenlight, a Git branch merging service. When you
>   want to land code on `master`, you notify Greenlight, which takes
>   care of it for you. Easy!
> 
>   Making it work was a technical challenge, but getting people to
>   accept it was a social engineering challenge. I'll explain both
>   aspects of this successful project.
> 
> The meeting will be held at our usual location:
> 
>   University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP)
>   Griffith Hall (Room "C" or "A", look for the signs)
>   600 South 43rd Street
>   Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495
> 
> USP is located in University City. Driving directions are
> available at http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/usp.html, or
> http://www.usip.edu/directions, both of which have an aerial view
> of the campus buildings. USP is also easily accessible by public
> transportation.
> 
> For those attending PLUG Central, if you arrive and the doors are
> locked you can call UCS's public safety number at 215.895.1117
> and they will radio personnel in the guard booth or someone else
> to unlock the door.  If you are asked who is sponsoring the
> meeting you can say "Zhiwei Liu" in the Chemistry department.
> 
> There will be an open Question & Answer session at 7PM, prior to
> the main presentation at 8PM. This is an open meeting; all are
> welcome and encouraged to attend.
> 
> Usually, a number of members get together after the meeting at a
> nearby restaurant for food and perhaps a beer or two. Come join
> the camaraderie!



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