Hello everyone,
In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that
the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent
Dictator, I decided that it would be a good idea to organize a Hackathon.
This will be an excellent opportunity for the community to get involved and
pick up on anything that we've all come to take for granted Felix (and other
core committers) would take care of.
For those unfamiliar with Hackathons, I've seen and participated in a couple
of hackathons from the NetBSD project
(http://www.netbsd.org/community/hackathon.html) where each was a smashing
success. The idea is that everyone (hackers AND users) gets together on IRC
(irc.freenode.net, #chicken) in a weekend and work on "boring" or routine
things that have been lying around and just need to get done. To stress,
this is _not_ about adding major new features, it's just about consolidating
what's already there, ie fixing bugs, weeding through bugreports, testing etc.
I propose to hold the hackathon on the weekend of 22-23 February. Suggestions
of different dates are welcome. A wiki page has been created at
http://chicken.wiki.br/Hackathon1 with some initial suggestions of things to
work on. Please feel free to add suggestions to it. As I've stated before,
_anyone_ is free to help out! Don't be shy, even if you have zero experience
hacking Chicken you can help out with documentation or testing of new features.
Cheers,
Peter