[WMF-outreach-staff] Who wants to run a Git/Gerrit tutorial?

[Gregory Varnum]

How much of a hassle will it be to setup git accts for folks on site?

-Greg
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On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:37 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> Also, are there individual laptop setup steps that we can optimize? For
>> example, are there elements of "Setting up Git" that people should do before
>> the tutorial?
> Sumana (who is on the mailing list I presume) reached out to
> participants prior to the tutorial to make sure they'd all applied for
> a Gerrit account, and encouraged them to clone the repository (it's a
> 100 MB clone, you don't want everyone to do that at the same time on
> the conference wifi), and at least try to install git-review.
> 
> For the actual tutorial, they used one of the test/example
> repositories (she or Patrick will be able to tell you which one, or
> you can look at the logs for that day) which is much much smaller than
> the MW core repo and therefore doesn't take much time and bandwidth to
> clone.
> 
>>>> - Doing code review for others' extensions and/or MediaWiki changes
>>> 
>>> I think maybe Roan could walk people through the CR process
>>> once we've gotten them on Gerrit, if he's willing :)
>> 
>> 
>> Yes!!
> I would be happy to, but could you clarify what you mean by "walk
> people through the CR process"?
> 
>>> Maybe a "How do I?" session after the tutorial is over? There's bound
>>> to be lots of questions of that nature.
>> 
>> 
>> That sounds great. (Did you folks do that in Berlin? What was the Q&A
>> duration like?)
> Sounds like a good idea. Re Berlin, I don't know; Chad wasn't in
> Berlin, and I wasn't able to attend any of the git tutorials because I
> was giving other tutorials the whole time.
> 
> Roan
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