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>]

One more note -- We're going to aim for Mark's talk to start around
7:15. If you'd like to test out your setup or just want to chat before
the meeting officially starts, some folks have said they'll be in the
channel starting at 6:30.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:24:38AM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug wrote:
> 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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