Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > hi everyone! > > > i think we really should have a hackathon to speed up lenya development > and give the developer and user community a boost. wdyt?
+1 > a meeting place in the ruhrgebiet could easily be arranged, and even > cheap or free private accommodation, but from what i know of the other > lenya devs, somewhere in switzerland or southern germany would probably > be more practical... > I could to organize a meeting place in the university of zuerich. > personally i'd be willing to take a few days off and fly my humble ass > to almost anywhere in europe, provided there's going to be enough > advance notice to get a cheap ticket. what about you other folks? > > i'm volunteering to coordinate the whole thing, but depending on the > location, somebody who actually lives in the area needs to do the grunt > work of securing a place. > If we decide to meet in Zuerich i can do the grunt work. > as to timing, i suggest something in the second quarter of 2007, > probably in april or may. we could also meet during the apachecon I am away from May 5 to about June 10 (www2007 and holidays :-) ) > europe, which takes place from may 1 to 4 in amsterdam, or better yet, > before or after. if you think amsterdam is an ok place, i'll get in > touch with arje of cocoongt fame - maybe we can find a place in the same > building that has hosted the get together for the last 2 years. > > regarding the agenda, let me first state that i'd like to see 1.4.0 out > well before the hackathon, so that we can have some breathing space for > more visional ideas. > topics that come to mind are: > > * improve and enlarge the lenya community > * resyncing with the world - users use 1.2, devs work on 1.4, and the > two fractions barely seem to know the other exists > * syncing with cocoon 2.2, talk about spring > * writing down lenya coding best practises, discuss and adopt > "convention over configuration" > * improve the storage backend, provide a migration path between lenya > versions > * define what lenya is good at, and seriously figure out reasons why the > world needs another cms :) > * make lenya more data-friendly, loosen the document-centric structure. > * hack and code and test and break stuff and have fun. > Lets first look whether there is enough interest for such a meeting and plan the details later. Anyway having fun sounds nice :-) [ ... ] > > i'd also suggest to ask around on the user list for advanced users who > are interested in learning about particular parts of the lenya code and > become devs. we would then have to organize special tutorials for those > users to give them a kick start, but it should certainly be worth the > effort. > +1 we could probaly get some more feedback on what features are really needed (and too the UI). Jann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
