[20120203]
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NetBSD Hackathon - February 10th to 12th, 2012
Matthias 'tron' Scheler
announced per mail
and on the NetBSD blog
``The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February
12th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get
NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
Everybody that has an interest in NetBSD, from developers, documentation
writers, translators, to advanced users are invited to attend. To make sure
that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of the new release we
would like to fix as many bugs as possible. For a list of bugs and more
information look at the Wiki Page under
<https://wiki.netbsd.org/hackathon/>
please.
If you are able to help us fixing these bugs by supplying patches or
testing fixes please consider to participate. We are also in need of
people to supply documentation fixes, preferably in the form of
patches. Release notes and/or manual pages!
Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs
to be done.
We are looking forward to seeing you!''
Indeed! :-)
[Tags: Events, hackathon]
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[20100205]
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Hackathon, February 19-22 2010
Aleksej Saushev
writes on a bunch of lists:
We're running 13th Hackathon February 19-22 2010,
come and join us on IRC channel #netbsd-code at FreeNode (irc.freenode.net).
You may choose other ways to participate, if you find it more convenient.
See Hackathon page for updates: http://wiki.netbsd.se/Hackathon13
Goal
Fix as many bugs as possible, close as many PRs as possible.
Details
In previous years we have accumulated a lot of problem reports.
Some of them relate to no longer supported branches (e.g. 2.0)
and were occasionally fixed during regular code work.
Some of them relate to hardware developers don't have access to.
Some of them may be too easy to fix, but noone looks at that part
of code (e.g. documentation).
Some of them relate to packages already removed or heavily reworked.
Some of them relate to packages in exotic environment (Solaris, Interix)
and developers cannot test if the bug is present or not.
You can find more in PR database at http://netbsd.org/support/query-pr.html
More specifically, David Holland maintains categorized lists of PRs at
http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/
of which "Wanted for 5.1"
(http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/51-WANTED.html)
and "Stuck" (http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/STUCK.html)
are of particular interest.
Another hot area is pkgsrc
(http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/pkgsrc.html).
IMPORTANT NOTE: You don't have to be programmer to be able to help us,
you can help us with generic testing support.
Come, bring your favourite booze, and join in!
[Tags: hackathon]
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[20080523]
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Hackathon #11 this weekend: Bugathon
Preparations of the NetBSD 5.0 release will start soon,
and to reduce the number of outstanding bugs before the
pre-branch feature freeze, David Holland has encouraged
to do yet another hackathon this weekend (May 23rd to 25th 2008),
to fix known bugs.
His posting
has information on details, including a
link to the 11th Hackathon page,
and the reminder to join #netbsd-code on irc.freenode.net for coordination.
There's quite a bit to do, so if you have time -> join in!
[Tags: hackathon]
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[20080318]
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Report on the first pkgsrc-wip hackathon
Adam Hoka posted about
started about doing another hackathon a few days ago,
with the focus of concentrating on pkgsrc-wip,
the SourceForge spinoff of pkgsrc that has "work in progress"
packages, and where it's easy to get commit access to import
packages for easy testing, before they are moved into pkgsrc.
The
"wipathon" ran last weekend, and now
Adam posted a
report on the results of the hackathon:
``We could tidy up pkgsrc-wip and import some packages to pkgsrc.
There are some other software we have made ready to use, and only needs
some testing before we can import them.
We have also got rid of outdated and long time unmaintained packages.
But the most important is, that we could share and discuss our ideas.''
On a side note, it also seems that one or more people got quite
some pkgsrc karma and possibly a new mail address in the process. :)
[Tags: hackathon, pkgsrc]
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[20080131]
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Article: Waving the flag: NetBSD developers speak about version 4.0
Federico Biancuzzi has collected interviews from more than
twenty NetBSD developers in an
multiple-page article
which talks about what's new in the NetBSD 4.0 release:
- Introduction
- Release engineering, Sendmail, and kauth
- PaX, fileassoc, and Veriexec
- Linux compat, XFree86, pkgsrc, proplib, and Xen
- Filesystems
- iSCSI and optical disc support
- Bluetooth, mobile devices, agr
- Google Summer of Code
- Hackathons and funding
If you have any comments, there's also a
page for comments and discussion available.
[Tags: Articles, bluetooth, google-soc, hackathon, iscsi, kauth, pkgsrc, Release, udf, veriexec, xen]
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[20080105]
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Hackathon 9 focussed on closing PRs
From the
NetBSD webpage:
`` The next hackathon will be held January 19th and 20th, 2008. The focus will be on closing PR's that are not relevant anymore after the release of 4.0. I.e. 2.0 becomes unsupported. Participation is open to everyone. Check out the Hackathon community page for more details.''
Useful links:
the general Hackathon wiki page,
NetBSD's hackathon page.
[Tags: hackathon]
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[20071028]
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pkgsrc hackathon focusing on package options next weekend
Adam Hoka writes that ``There is a pkgsrc hackathon scheduled for 3rd-4th of November.
Our goals
Make options.mk files for packages that don`t already use them, and
improve support for options if the package uses them but more options
could be added.''
See
Adam's posting
for more information, and see also the
Wiki page for this 7th hackathon.
[Tags: hackathon, pkgsrc]
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[20070409]
|
Hackathon 5 - Results
[Daniel and I have drafted this together, so I'll take the liberty to
paste without quotes]
The fifth NetBSD Hackathon took place from Friday, 6th of April, until
Sunday, 8th of April 2007. Titled "docathon", the main focus was on
bringing the NetBSD WWW pages and documentation into a consistent and
more up-to-date state. Here are the results:
- All .list files that are not related to translations have been
converted
- Many of the ports pages were previously either available in XML
or HTML. To unify them, all the HTML-pages have been converted to
XML (or are under conversion).
- The wscons FAQ has been converted and merged into the NetBSD
Guide's "console drivers" section.
- Other parts of the documentation previously only available in plain
HTML have been converted to XML.
- Obsolete ports pages have been removed in the process of the sh5
and evhsh5 port removal which happended during this weekend, new
ports paves have been properly linked.
- Various minor updates and fixes have been applied
Unfortunately, the translations are generally in a state without much
hope. In order not to confuse users with highly outdated docs, it is
recommended that the translations shall be dropped sooner or later. Of
course, regional groups are highly encouraged to maintain their own
translations in order to further promote NetBSD for their native
users.
Overall, the event was a great success, and given esp. the short
notice still a number of people have helped to make it so - thank you
very much to all of them!
If you want to learn more about the 5th NetBSD Hackathon, you can find
information at the NetBSD.se Wiki at
http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php?title=Hackathon5. People interested in
working on any of the open issues feel free to communicate via the
netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org mailing list.
Let me add a few notes on my own:
- The NetBSD.se Wiki is a WONDERFUL tool for short-term, online
collaboration and management of working lists
- Our documentation needs more reading, and consecutive updates.
We should do a Readathon soon. :)
- Emacs with nxml-mode (pkgsrc/textproc/nxml-mode) is a nice
tool for updating documentation, esp. one with bad structure
and lots of missing closing links.
Thanks to Daniel for being the driving force behind this event!
[Tags: Events, hackathon]
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[20061223]
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4th Hackathon: pkgsrc
Citing from the
NetBSD website:
``The NetBSD Project will hold its fourth
hackathon from December 27th to December 29th, 2006. The event will focus on preparing
pkgsrc for the upcoming pkgsrc-2006q4 branch and to close as many
pkg PRs as possible. Please join us on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #pkgsrc)!''.
Jörg Sonnenberger has sent
mail with more details
to tech-pkg@.
[Tags: Events, hackathon]
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[20061009]
|
The NetBSD Bugathon: Reloaded and successful
Last weekend was the second
NetBSD Bugathon -- an event that
was focussed at fixing existing NetBSD
PRs, and that had
many NetBSD developers ("committers") and enthusiastic users work
on fixing and closing about 300
open PRs.
The event was again guided by Elad Efrat, who has also posted
a report on the bugathon, see
his mail to the netbsd-users list.
Given the recent rumours about NetBSD dying, having no momentum,
etc. that's quite a step forward, and it also served as
an example for others.
Further events of this kind are planned, though they will likely be
more focussed, going away from picking the low-hanging fruits^WPRs
and aiming e.g. at specific areas like pkgsrc, support of certain hardware
platforms, etc. Check out the
NetBSD Hackathon webpage
for updates!
[Tags: Events, hackathon]
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