Re: [Chicken-hackers] Hackathon roundup

[Kon Lovett]

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On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Peter Bex wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This weekend's hackathon was a great success.  Fun was had by all,  
> and lots
> of work got done.  Most importantly, a number of new people have  
> become
> more active in the project.
>
> Summary
> -------
>
> We have accomplished the following things:
>
> - About twenty eggs got their old-style HTML documentation  
> translated to
>    the wiki format.

Thanks to everyone for all the work. I just wish "test- 
infrastructure" wasn't translated since it is obsolete. The current  
is "testbase".

> - We managed to break the wiki a couple of times, resulting in  
> improvements
>    to svnwiki.
> - New syntax for documenting eggs in the wiki was implemented
>    (http://chicken.wiki.br/wiki-syntax-chicken).
> - We worked on Chicken tutorials for 'blub' programmers, for several
>    values of 'blub': Ruby, Python and PHP.  A Chicken for Java  
> tutorial
>    is currently in the works, too.
> - A document about how to hack on Chicken's core and the release  
> process
>    is currently underway.
> - The eggs for release 2 of Chicken have found their way from the
>    toplevel directory of the repository to the release/2 subdirectory,
>    resulting in a clearer layout  of the repos.
> - A number of programs on the Great Language Shootout game at
>    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ have been improved so that  
> Chicken
>    will get a fairer comparison to other languages who have been
>    spending more time on optimizing their shootout programs.
>
> As you can see, the results are quite impressive.  I would like to  
> thank
> everyone who participated and made this possible!
>
> What's next?
> ------------
>
> The hackathon may be over, but work will continue.  We should keep up
> the momentum that we have gained during the hackathon and continue  
> working
> on the things to do.  There are still lots of eggs with old-style HTML
> documentation.  These need to be translated to wiki syntax.  It should
> be possible to automatically convert the eggdoc documentation, so  
> these
> are not our priority right now.  Furthermore, the
> chicken-for-blub-programmers documents can use some attention of  
> 'blub'
> language experts.
>
> But most important of all, feel free to work on whatever *you* find
> interesting and fun, to improve Chicken even more!
>
> Thanks again, everyone!
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> --
> http://sjamaan.ath.cx
> --
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>  is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically
>  and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic
>  experience much like composing poetry or music."
>                                                         -- Donald Knuth
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Best Wishes,
Kon


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