Hi everyone,


This from the cycle "Walter's and Andrei's Crazy Ideas". We'd like to invite you all to a hackathon starting Saturday April 25 and ending Friday May 1st.

The idea is to spend a week concentrating efforts on writing code for all aspects of D (with a focus on, but not limited to, D's github repos). Should be fun! At the end of the week we'll count the bugs fixed and pulled PRs and compare them against the weekly average over the past few months. If it was productive in addition to fun, so much the better!

Rules are simple. Walter and I will observe them and invite others to join us:

* The focus will be to either work on a project that has been put on the backburner for a while, fix issues small and large, or simply review existing pull requests. You choose (For example I will work on making std.allocator ready for review.)

* Participation to forums will be minimal during the hackathon. The bulk of communication will occur on github and will be code-related.

* Focus is on fixing existing bugzilla issues (issues predating this announcement). New bugs fixed will receive extra scrutiny to make sure there's no gaming.

* Please no trolling/negativity. Do good work and good reviews.

* Saturday May 2nd we "meet" on the forum for the week's conclusion, measurements, discussions, emergent PRs and proposals, etc.

Pencil the dates in your calendar!


Andrei

On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 02:44:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Pencil the dates in your calendar!
>
>
> Andrei

I think this is a great idea and I marked it in my calendar. Also as a suggestion, the Python community usually runs "Sprints" on every major conference. Basically after the main conference for 1-2 days people stay and get into a room and hack on projects. I really like that format. I am not sure what the room situation for Dconf is, but if we can have a room +1 day, I'd love to stay around for a one day more and "sprint".

 - David

On 10/04/2015 8:05 a.m., David Soria Parra wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 02:44:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Pencil the dates in your calendar!
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I think this is a great idea and I marked it in my calendar. Also as a
> suggestion, the Python community usually runs "Sprints" on every major
> conference. Basically after the main conference for 1-2 days people stay
> and get into a room and hack on projects. I really like that format. I
> am not sure what the room situation for Dconf is, but if we can have a
> room +1 day, I'd love to stay around for a one day more and "sprint".
>
>   - David

Basically a big ol' closed door lan party. I like the idea! I wonder if Facebook has any facilities (and willing) to offer in this regard, as I know their devs do this.

On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 20:05 +0000, David Soria Parra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> I think this is a great idea and I marked it in my calendar. Also
> as a suggestion, the Python community usually runs "Sprints" on
> every major conference. Basically after the main conference for
> 1-2 days people stay and get into a room and hack on projects. I
> really like that format. I am not sure what the room situation
> for Dconf is, but if we can have a room +1 day, I'd love to stay
> around for a one day more and "sprint".
> 

In the JVM-verse they tend to be called Hackergarten. There is a subtle
difference between a Hackergarten and a Sprint I am told, but I have, as
yet, failed to find out what this is.
For the EuroPython sprints in 2010 we took over some rooms but this meant
each team was in a separate room and the various folk only met at break
times. For the PyConUK sprints we just use the main conference room and
teams set up in various parts of it. I never cease to be pleased by the
serendipitous extras things that happen because of the lack of boundaries
between teams.
I think it is important to emphasize that whilst some people will provide
pull requests during a sprint, others may not. This is not a problem. As
long as each "project" gets some pull requests that is fine.
Last year for one of the "projects" sprinting, some of us got some serious
pull requests in whilst others only just managed to get set up. The
feedback to the team of these people setting up was massively positive for
the "project" and led to wholesale changes after the sprint that made set
up so much easier for those coming after.
-- 
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Andrei,

I can only make the D Hackathon 2015, on 2015-04-30 and 2015-05-01. I'd love to get stuck in on something. Probably best for me to find out the state of play (!) at 2015-04-30T06:00+01:00 and find out how/where to contribute then.

-- 
Russel.
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russel.winder@ekiga.net
41 Buckmaster Road   m:+44 7770 465 077   xmpp:russel@winder.org.uk
London SW11 1EN, UK  w: www.russel.org.uk skype:russel_winder

On 14/04/2015 2:06 a.m., Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 20:05 +0000, David Soria Parra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>> I think this is a great idea and I marked it in my calendar. Also
>> as a suggestion, the Python community usually runs "Sprints" on
>> every major conference. Basically after the main conference for
>> 1-2 days people stay and get into a room and hack on projects. I
>> really like that format. I am not sure what the room situation
>> for Dconf is, but if we can have a room +1 day, I'd love to stay
>> around for a one day more and "sprint".
>>
>
> In the JVM-verse they tend to be called Hackergarten. There is a subtle
> difference between a Hackergarten and a Sprint I am told, but I have, as
> yet, failed to find out what this is.
> For the EuroPython sprints in 2010 we took over some rooms but this meant
> each team was in a separate room and the various folk only met at break
> times. For the PyConUK sprints we just use the main conference room and
> teams set up in various parts of it. I never cease to be pleased by the
> serendipitous extras things that happen because of the lack of boundaries
> between teams.
> I think it is important to emphasize that whilst some people will provide
> pull requests during a sprint, others may not. This is not a problem. As
> long as each "project" gets some pull requests that is fine.
> Last year for one of the "projects" sprinting, some of us got some serious
> pull requests in whilst others only just managed to get set up. The
> feedback to the team of these people setting up was massively positive for
> the "project" and led to wholesale changes after the sprint that made set
> up so much easier for those coming after.

This ugh sounds like lan parties where I would end up programming...

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 02:11 +1200, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> 
> This ugh sounds like lan parties where I would end up programming...

Not quite sure where the "lan party" comes in, sprints are where people sit together in the same physical space. As for programming, well yes, isn't that the whole point? ;-)

-- 
Russel.
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russel.winder@ekiga.net
41 Buckmaster Road   m:+44 7770 465 077   xmpp:russel@winder.org.uk
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On 4/13/15 7:10 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I can only make the D Hackathon 2015, on 2015-04-30 and 2015-05-01.
> I'd love to get stuck in on something. Probably best for me to find
> out the state of play (!) at 2015-04-30T06:00+01:00 and find out
> how/where to contribute then.

Sounds great. See you on the barricades! -- Andrei

On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 20:37:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/13/15 7:10 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I can only make the D Hackathon 2015, on 2015-04-30 and 2015-05-01.
>> I'd love to get stuck in on something. Probably best for me to find
>> out the state of play (!) at 2015-04-30T06:00+01:00 and find out
>> how/where to contribute then.
>
> Sounds great. See you on the barricades! -- Andrei

BTW. What do you mean here:

"Walter and I will observe them and invite others to join us:"

Piotrek

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 13:37 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/13/15 7:10 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > I can only make the D Hackathon 2015, on 2015-04-30 and 2015-05-01. I'd love to get stuck in on something. Probably best for me to find out the state of play (!) at 2015-04-30T06:00+01:00 and find out how/where to contribute then.
> 
> Sounds great. See you on the barricades! -- Andrei

I am assuming we will actually see each other next week at ACCU 2015 :- )

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