18.Feb.2016 at 16:48 by Matthew Turland (102 comments) via Web2 LIVE
Overall, a good talk. Does what it says on the tin.
Examples are based on svn, which is still in use but has for the most part fallen out of favor compared to distributed version control systems. I think the talk's relevance could benefit from switching the examples to use a DVCS like git, which is mentioned in the talk and appeared to be used by most of the talk's audience when they were polled by the presenter. That said, many tools are mentioned that assist with the development process and integrate with git. I'm surprised workflows like git-flow didn't seem to get much of a mention.
One relevant subtopic that wasn't covered -- not the fault of the presenter, as I find it's a topic that really doesn't receive enough attention -- is the possibility of scripting proactive searches for merge conflicts between active feature branches and notification of concerned parties, so that merge conflicts aren't discovered late and force potentially hasty or risky resolutions or the exclusion of affected code from time-boxed releases.
PHP_CodeSniffer is covered. A more modern alternative that isn't mentioned is php-cs-fixer: https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer.
Commit message templates are mentioned, though I don't believe Github PR templates are: https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates. Again, not the fault of the presenter, as the feature release was very recent.
18.Feb.2016 at 16:26 by David Carr (39 comments) via Web2 LIVE
Too much theory talk would be useful to have a more hands on talk real world examples.
Presentation was really clear and well delivered.