Hi Martin and Open Source WG, On 11/01/2019 16:24, Martin Winter wrote: > [back to WG-chair mode] > We are “only” the chairs, trying to figuring out what’s best or most > interesting to community. > > So pushing this a bit back to the community: > > Opinions? Should we host a round-table discussion on this? Or some other > form of discussion?
Yes, I would be interested to have this discussion. > Anyone wants to talk about good or bad experiences on a hackathon? I can share my (personal) experiences with the IETF hackathons that have been organised in the past four years. For me and my colleagues at NLnet Labs, IETF hackathons were an excellent opportunity to implement upcoming or new internet standards in one of our projects. The IETF hackathons bring software developers together in a room where they can discuss issues, collaborate in a project or carry out interop tests. As an example for the DNS crowd at the hackathons, we have worked on DNS privacy in various settings, with DNS "vendors" (for example CZ.NIC, ISC, NLnet Labs and PowerDNS), the software developers of Sinodun or individuals of different organizations. On the other hand, with the implementation of DNS-over-HTTPS during the IETF hackathon in London last year, many ambiguities in the internet draft were reported and clarifications were sent to the authors. A hackathon is therefore valuable for both sides: making open source code of new standards available to the community; and feedback to authors of internet drafts to improve their documents. I have seen similar results from the TLS protocol and software developers, in which the new TLS 1.3 specification was (partially) implemented and tested with different applications. The development of QUIC libraries and applications using the libraries also profited enormously from the hackathons: interop matrices were presented with successes and failures, and as such helping the developers of the various libraries. The integrity of hackathons can be safeguarded by the organisers, I think. For example, by setting some rules and expectations for participation (by a project) and participants. Cheers, -- Benno -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ _______________________________________________ opensource-wg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/opensource-wg
