Description:Guillermo Polito (guillermo.polito@inria.fr)


Abstract:
In 2016, Iceberg was born so people could host their Pharo projects on git repositories.
Since 2017, Pharo is hosted in git and bootstrapped from sources on each new commit.
Iceberg is then not only important for private projects but also crucial in Pharo's contribution process.

Today, more than two years since the project started, we have learnt some lessons: not everybody understands git, and Pharo projects are not simple git projects. This talk gives an overview of the challenges we had to overcome, such as dual working copies, in-memory merge strategies, external resources and performance issues arising from big Pharo projects (e.g., Pharo itself).


Bio: Guille Polito is research engineer at the CRIStAL laboratory in the university of Lille, working in tight relation with the RMoD team.
Guille's main research interests are techniques to develop modular systems and new development tools.
Guille participates in the Pharo community since 2010.
His most noticeable contributions in the past months are in the Pharo bootstrap process, Pharo stream management, Iceberg and OSSubprocess.