Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wed Apr 1 - PLUG Central - "Greenlight Is A Git Branch Merging Service" by Mark Jason Dominus

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

Mark's slides for tomorrow's talk are online at
https://perl.plover.com/classes/greenlight/

Walt

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:07:19PM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug wrote:
> PLUG Central will be meeting on Wednesday, April 1 beginning at
> 7pm. Since we're all stuck at home due to COVID-19 we'll be doing this
> month's meeting online. Details are at the bottom of the email.
> 
> This month, PLUG welcomes back Mark Jason Dominus. Mark will be giving
> a talk entitled "Greenlight Is A Git Branch Merging Service".
> 
>   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.
> 
> We'll be using Jitsi Meet, an free and open source videoconference
> platform, for the meeting.  You can access the meeting online at
> 
> https://meet.jit.si/PLUGCentralApril2020
> 
> Keep in mind that Chrome and Chromium are the only recommended
> browsers. Other browsers might work as well but it's possible you'll
> have performance problem.
> 
> Jitsi Meet also has apps for iOS and Android. If you decide to use one
> of those apps, use meeting code "PLUGCentralApril2020".
> 
> To join by phone instead, tap this: +1.512.402.2718, PIN: 1365683142#
> 
> This is going to be a learning experience for everyone so please be
> patient in case we have any technical problems. But if it works,
> hopefully we can continue using Jitsi for virtual PLUG meetings until
> we're able to meet in person again.
> 
> Walt



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