Git BoF

Manuel Woelker (EclipseSource)

Eclipse Ecosystem - Committer And Contributor · Bof
Wednesday, 20:00, 1 hour and 15 minutes | Room 209/210

Manuel Woelker

The distributed source control management tool git has gained a lot of traction in the software development world. The distributed nature offers a lot of advantages over classical centralised SCM's, supporting a variety of different workflows and development models.
Discussion topics:

Using git in the wild - experiences and opinions
Possible options for an eclipse git team provider (e.g. EGit)
Future deployment of git as a SCM at the eclipse foundation
Benefits for teams, committers and contributers

Manuel works as an Eclipse developer and consultant at EclipseSource. He is a developer for the free Yoxos Eclipse distribution. He is currently also heavily involved in the EPP Dynamic Package Delivery subproject (informally known as EPP/P2 wizard), that uses P2 provisioning technology to configure and deploy customized eclipse installations. In his free time he hacks on JGit/EGit.