On Apr 26, 2017 07:12, "Jim Jagielski" <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
I have never been productive at Hackathons. The discussion is great and all that, but as far as the actual coding is concerned, I am too accustomed to having a certain environment when coding, including my desktop cpu, full keyboard and monitor. I just can't do serious coding/hacking on a laptop. This old dog just can't. Neither can I, although I will point out all final spit and polish of my non-recursive secure fnmatch.c replacement was completed at a past PenguiCon (Linux/Maker/SciFi event this coming weekend in Detroit metro.) Sort of ironic to release BSD code at a GPL-ish event, on the upside I met RSE in person :) I find that I've spent more time at hackathons melding concensus on troublesome design overhauls. Jeff's loadable MPM switch happened at an Hackathon. Several shared problems between svn and httpd within apr were resolved at the Apache retreat Wicklow. So Hackathon is not always the most productive space but is a good forum to sort things out. Who knew we understood pair programming before it was invented :) Even the very limited conversations in Seville led to good APR outcomes, so it still works if there are 2+ committers engaged. Sounds that this is unlikely for Miami, but looking forward to the next opportunity.
