On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 10:49 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > One of the things the Board wants to see happen this year is hackfests, > > and the fact that the GTK+ one was a success is a good sign that we > > should do this :-) But to make this happen, we need help from the > > community to come up with ideas of hackfests and we also need help from > > volunteers to lead this effort. > > > > So if you can think of a topic that would be suitable for a hackfest, > > please talk about it with a few people and share your idea. > > I'm curious- I see some fairly low-level suggestions here (gio > porting, pixbuf loaders) but it was my impression that part of what > made the gtk hackfest so successful is that it was at least partially > about decision making rather than coding- the face-to-face presence > made vision-sharing/direction-setting very easy, which led to > important decisions being made, and great hacking as well. Was this > the impression of the folks at the gtk hackfest as well?
was about to reply, but as usual Luis said it best. a hackfest is a high bandwidth channel to communicate and discuss with a low chance of being side-tracked; it's not (just) a place for banging out code: it's a place for defining strategies. 'port the applications to gio' and 'fix the pixbuf loaders implementation' might be good topics for the summer of code or for a GNOME goal, but they are not good topics for a hackfest; 'decide what's missing in gio to port all the applications' and 'how do we fix the pixbuf loaders' are - at least, after the experience of the gtk+ hackfest. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
