For those who�ve been interested in what went on during the last two weeks, where I visited Lille, I�ve compiled a short report. Regarding my work on Git I�ll continue to report on the status from time to time.

I want to thank everyone at RMoD once again for the warm welcome and the support I received. Special thanks to Ben and Camillo for providing a place to crash at.
Thanks also go to all of you guys and girls on the list for pushing Pharo constantly and for showing interest in my work. It�s very encouraging.

Cheers,
Max


Git:
- Esteban Lorenzano and me worked together on preparing the libgit2 and libssh2 libraries for integration into the VM
- Igor Stasenko worked with me to solve a couple of problems I had with NativeBoost. Especially callbacks can be tricky
- Learnt how to build the VM in debugging mode so that I could debug FFI calls in XCode
- Stefan Marr worked with me on moving the tests from Phexample to SUnit
- The implementation now enables writing of blobs, trees and commits, cloning of remote repositories (https), fetching from remote repositories (https), pushing to remote repositories (https)
- Authentication with remote repositories via SSH is working but clone, fetch, push don't work yet (problems with the libssh2 interaction that I wasn't able to resolve yet)
- I set up an initial build infrastructure on the INRIA CI server (https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/LibGit2/)
- We defined a rough roadmap for what needs to be done in the near future:
       1. finish the low level libgit2 abstraction (offer a minimal API that hides the bindings; we don't want users to use the bindings directly)
       2. we already have a prototype of a FileSystem wrapper for Git. We want to use that on top of the libgit2 abstraction layer
       3. we already have a Monticello FileSystem wrapper prototype. We want to use that to abstract from the actual storage method. Together with the Git-FileSystem wrapper this should make it very easy to continue (for now) using Monticello and the existing GUI tools while using Git as a backend for storage.
- On Friday 21 I gave a short demo at RMoD on the work accomplished and what the plans are for the future

Fuel:
- Mart�n Dias and I worked together on:
       - debugging a problem with large object graphs
       - preparing a new baseline for Fuel 2
       - moving the benchmark suite to SMark
       - setting up a benchmark build on the INRIA CI server which will help us track performance changes when introducing changes
       - defining a rough roadmap for Fuel
- Had a discussion with Usman Bhatti about the uses and the future of Fuel in Moose