On 28 October 2012 01:28, spin <s...@hackerspace.pl> wrote: > On 10/28/2012 00:41, Jon Nordby wrote: >> >> One bug-related suggestion. How about doing bug-triaging during the >> hackathon? This is an activity which in my experience scales very well >> with more people involved, and is easy to get into also for those that >> are new to the project and/or technologies (toolkit, programming >> language etc). >> >> It is not exactly the sexiest task, but having a clean bug-tracker >> really helps with the productivity (and motivation) of developers and >> new contributors. >> > > > Hey Jon, > > This is a great suggestion! I will consider doing bugtracking depending on > the amount of people participating and the direction the event will take, as > it's still in preparation. I'll consult it around with people in the > hackerspace as well. > > I want to do at least two of these events, and I expect about 60% of > participants covering both, so getting them to know their way around the > code on the first occasion would be great. > > On the other side, I want to have a few harder tasks on the ready, because > some people may lose motivation over simple bugtrack choring (and their > resources would be suboptimally allocated as well).
I'll go through my personal TODO and bugtracker to see what I can find. > Regarding presence, it should be possible online - we have an IRC channel > (irc.freenode.net #hackerspace-pl), and we'll set up an etherpad for the > event. Getting a voip with video stream should be possible as well, if > needed. If you or any other developer would want to participate online, that > would be great, since you know your way around the code, and will be able to > answer questions that may otherwise take considerable amounts of time. I will be present online to help you out, if the time fits. I would request that we use #mypaint IRC channel though, as many of the questions/answers/topics will probably be of interest to the people that are already there. -- Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list Mypaint-discuss@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
