How to Make Package Managers Scream
K.1.105 (La Fontaine) | Day 1 | 17:00 - 17:50 | Speakers: Kenneth Hoste
Abstract
1000 years ago in the Package Management devroom at FOSDEM 2018 I gave a talk entitled "How To Make Package Managers Cry", where I presented a range of techniques that open source software projects can apply to make the life of package managers utterly miserable.
In many ways, the world is a different place since then... Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Open source enthusiasts have come up with many more and even better ideas!
Come and learn about the creative yet tremendously effective ways in which open source software projects (and the broader ecosystem) have taken things to the next level to make package managers scream.
You may also get to know a couple of tools that (for some reason) try to counter these best practices, to great dismay of the open source software community.
If you too want to make package managers scream, don't miss this talk...
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Kenneth Hoste, a.k.a. @boegel, is a computer scientist and FOSS enthusiast from Belgium.
Since October 2010, he is a member of the HPC team at Ghent University (Belgium) where he is mainly responsible for user support & training. As a part of his job, he is also the lead developer and release manager of EasyBuild (https://easybuild.io), a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, as well a a core contributor to the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, https://eessi.io). In addition, he is an active contributor to both MultiXscale, a EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence (https://multixscale.eu), and the EuroHPC Federation Platform (https://my-eurohpc.eu).
In his free time, he is a family guy and a fan of loud music, frequently attending gigs and festivals.
He enjoys helping people & sharing his expertise, and likes joking around.
He is willing to trade stickers for beer (you bring the beer), but he can be quite picky about the type of beer.
He is an avid FOSDEM attendee since 2012, and lead organizer of the "HPC, Big Data, and Data Science" devroom at FOSDEM.
- GitHub: @boegel
- BlueSky: @boegel.bsky.social
- Mastodon: @boegel@mast.hpc.social
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