---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Paul King <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM Subject: Re: Community over Code Glasgow 2026 Hackathon page To: <[email protected]>
I have a draft here: https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site/pull/34 Feedback welcome. On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 4:51 AM James Fredley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > I think it make sense to combine, so there is more cross pollination > between the teams. > > On the Grails front, I think our main goal is to work on the Grails > Forge and Grails Profiles intersection, either combination, deprecation > of one, etc. > > Specifically, we would like to have a single Grails application > generator, if possible, instead of two. And define the CLI command > structure for the future. > > There are several existing GitHub issues, these do not cover everything. > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/15301 > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14081 > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14944 > > James > > --------------- > > Hi Groovy and Grails folks, > > Over the weekend, I was going to write a draft page(s?) for the > hackathon for Community over Code Glasgow. What is the hackathon? > There is dedicated space at the conference for folks to get together > and have chats (unconference style) or work on mini projects. This > lets us deep dive with other users of our projects and maybe even > advance them along the way. > > Currently the hackathon main page is here: > > https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/hackathon.html > > Once projects fill in their page, it is then linked from the main page > instead of the current temporary links which mostly are now pointing > to project home pages. Eventually, the page should resemble the one > for Tomcat: > > https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/tomcat.html > > Source here: > > https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site/blob/main/source/events/2026/community-over-code/tomcat.md > > First question, do we want a combined Groovy/Grails page or two separate > pages? > > Also, projects are putting together lists of potential topics to hack > on during the event, e.g. Tomcat has created a list on their wiki > here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/TOMCAT/pages/421958054/Hackathon+CoC+Glasgow+2026 > > Other projects are updating their "good first issue" labels in their > issue tracking systems and using those as potential topics. > > If we keep separate list(s), our Hackathon page(s) themselves won't > need frequent updates, but I'll probably include a few indicative > topics on that page to entice folks to dive in further. > > So, let me know any topics you think would be great to cover or if you > have a suggestion on where to create a list of topics. > > Thanks, Paul. >
