JJ and How to Evolve an Open Source Ecosystem

Jujutsu is a new version control system that's gaining in popularity. Its swappable backends allow users to continue using version control systems like Git without other users even noticing. Steve Klabnik aims to be a big part of it. Much like with Rust, he's getting involved early and making some big swings. In this episode, he joins Kris and Matt to discuss JJ and his recent announcement that he'll be joining East River Source Control to work on JJ and related projects full time.

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Table of Contents:

• Prologue (00:00:00)
• Chapter 1: Farewell, Oxide! Hello, East River Source Control! (00:03:44)
• Chapter 2: JJ Backends (00:13:54)
• Chapter 3: When To Choose New Tools (00:17:58)
• Chapter 4: We're Not Going Back (00:29:16)
• Chapter 5: Why Use JJ? (00:31:05)
• Chapter 6: Creating New Layers [Extended] (00:45:33)
• Chapter 7: JJHub? [Extended] (00:46:08)
• Chapter 8: Forking Is About More Than Just The Code (00:46:56)
• Appendix Unpop: Unpopular Opinions (00:50:02)
• Epilogue (00:56:10)

Hosts

• Kris Brandow - Host
• Matthew Sanabria - Host
• Steve Klabnik - Host

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• (00:00) - Prologue
• (03:44) - Chapter 1: Farewell, Oxide! Hello, East River Source Control!
• (13:54) - Chapter 2: JJ Backends
• (17:58) - Chapter 3: When To Choose New Tools
• (29:16) - Chapter 4: We're Not Going Back
• (31:05) - Chapter 5: Why Use JJ?
• (45:33) - Chapter 6: Creating New Layers [Extended]
• (46:08) - Chapter 7: JJHub? [Extended]
• (46:56) - Chapter 8: Forking Is About More Than Just The Code
• (50:02) - Appendix Unpop: Unpopular Opinions
• (56:10) - Epilogue