On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:37:00 +0100 Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that > the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent > Dictator, I decided that it would be a good idea to organize a Hackathon. > This will be an excellent opportunity for the community to get involved and > pick up on anything that we've all come to take for granted Felix (and other > core committers) would take care of. > > For those unfamiliar with Hackathons, I've seen and participated in a couple > of hackathons from the NetBSD project > (http://www.netbsd.org/community/hackathon.html) where each was a smashing > success. The idea is that everyone (hackers AND users) gets together on IRC > (irc.freenode.net, #chicken) in a weekend and work on "boring" or routine > things that have been lying around and just need to get done. To stress, > this is _not_ about adding major new features, it's just about consolidating > what's already there, ie fixing bugs, weeding through bugreports, testing etc. Very good idea, Peter. > I propose to hold the hackathon on the weekend of 22-23 February. Suggestions > of different dates are welcome. A wiki page has been created at > http://chicken.wiki.br/Hackathon1 with some initial suggestions of things to > work on. Please feel free to add suggestions to it. As I've stated before, > _anyone_ is free to help out! Don't be shy, even if you have zero experience > hacking Chicken you can help out with documentation or testing of new > features. Yet another form of contribution is creating a user page at http://chicken.wiki.br/users (it doesn't necessarily need to be done during the hackaton, obviously. I just used Peter's message as a hook). :-) Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
