Hello everyone, This weekend's hackathon was a great success. Fun was had by all, and lots of work got done. Most importantly, a number of new people have become more active in the project.
Summary ------- We have accomplished the following things: - About twenty eggs got their old-style HTML documentation translated to the wiki format. - We managed to break the wiki a couple of times, resulting in improvements to svnwiki. - New syntax for documenting eggs in the wiki was implemented (http://chicken.wiki.br/wiki-syntax-chicken). - We worked on Chicken tutorials for 'blub' programmers, for several values of 'blub': Ruby, Python and PHP. A Chicken for Java tutorial is currently in the works, too. - A document about how to hack on Chicken's core and the release process is currently underway. - The eggs for release 2 of Chicken have found their way from the toplevel directory of the repository to the release/2 subdirectory, resulting in a clearer layout of the repos. - A number of programs on the Great Language Shootout game at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ have been improved so that Chicken will get a fairer comparison to other languages who have been spending more time on optimizing their shootout programs. As you can see, the results are quite impressive. I would like to thank everyone who participated and made this possible! What's next? ------------ The hackathon may be over, but work will continue. We should keep up the momentum that we have gained during the hackathon and continue working on the things to do. There are still lots of eggs with old-style HTML documentation. These need to be translated to wiki syntax. It should be possible to automatically convert the eggdoc documentation, so these are not our priority right now. Furthermore, the chicken-for-blub-programmers documents can use some attention of 'blub' language experts. But most important of all, feel free to work on whatever *you* find interesting and fun, to improve Chicken even more! Thanks again, everyone! Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth
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