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digitalmars.D - [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first D Hackathon!

The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and collaboration 
on anything and everything related to the D programming language.

All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online forums 
(http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github repos 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
https://webchat.freenode.net).

Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with "[hackathon]". 
(There should be little else!)

Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your friends!) and 
part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to lower the barrier to entry 
for would-be collaborators by means of better documentation and tooling.

Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. We'll 
officially measure hackathon results by the number of preexisting bugs 
fixed, but do feel free to work on anything you think is important to 
you. There is no other rule than getting good work done.

See you in one week!


Andrei
Apr 18 2015
next sibling parent reply "kevin" <sudo pt-get.com> writes:
On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
 D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
 D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
 D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


Sounds exciting! as an aforementioned complete n00b, what can I 
do to prepare for the hackathon other than staring at the source 
code? I'm mostly interested in contributing for Phobos but I have 
never used D for any big projects before.
Apr 18 2015
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 4/18/15 10:21 AM, kevin wrote:

 Sounds exciting! as an aforementioned complete n00b, what can I do to
 prepare for the hackathon other than staring at the source code? I'm
 mostly interested in contributing for Phobos but I have never used D for
 any big projects before.


Thanks for asking. Two things I can think of: (1) get your 
edit-build-unittest rig in good shape (e.g. do you know how to unittest 
only one module without unittesting anything else? it doubles your 
turnaround speed!), (2) think of a few good action items e.g. by 
thinking of opportunities for new code, or by browsing bugzilla.

Andrei
Apr 18 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "ANtlord" <antlord92 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
 D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. 
Can I take a part in hackaton remotely? And second question. Will 
hackaton's projects be published?

Thank you. I'm sorry, if my english is not clear.
Apr 19 2015
next sibling parent "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 13:03:22 UTC, ANtlord wrote:

 On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the 
 first D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


 Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. 
 Can I take a part in hackaton remotely? And second question. 
 Will hackaton's projects be published?

 Thank you. I'm sorry, if my english is not clear.


I can't speak for Andrei, but I think this is more of a casual 
"do some work on something valuable to D" session rather than a 
formal hackathon. I think everyone will be working remotely.
Apr 19 2015
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 4/19/15 9:03 AM, ANtlord wrote:

 Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. Can I
 take a part in hackaton remotely?


Yes! The hackathon is exclusively online and distributed!


 And second question. Will hackaton's
 projects be published?


It's the choice of each author! My hope is that out of this we'll have 
some good bugfixes, good stuff in http://code.dlang.org, and maybe a 
good couple of articles.


Andrei
Apr 20 2015
parent "Darkfeign" <darkfeign gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 12:17:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 4/19/15 9:03 AM, ANtlord wrote:

 Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. 
 Can I
 take a part in hackaton remotely?


 Yes! The hackathon is exclusively online and distributed!


 And second question. Will hackaton's
 projects be published?


 It's the choice of each author! My hope is that out of this 
 we'll have some good bugfixes, good stuff in 
 http://code.dlang.org, and maybe a good couple of articles.


 Andrei


This would be a great outcome. Some more links/ideas for starter 
projects might be nice for those interested in getting involved 
but not knowing the best places to begin.
Apr 20 2015
prev sibling parent reply "Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:
On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
 D Hackathon!

 The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
 collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
 programming language.

 All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
 forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
 repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
 irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
 https://webchat.freenode.net).

 Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
 "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)

 Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
 friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
 lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
 of better documentation and tooling.

 Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
 experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
 We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
 preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
 you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
 getting good work done.

 See you in one week!


 Andrei


This sounds awesome!

I'm going to give the website and phobos documentation a pass 
making corrections and adding examples, beefing up, etc. So i'll 
trawl bugzilla looking for low hanging fruit/easy stuff to get my 
feet wet.

I've run into a few problems[1] with building the website and 
documentation. DMD, druntime and phobos all build easily but 
dlang.org sources are a pain. I wonder if anyone has built the 
website recently from scratch to make sure it all works?

Also the tools repository needs work to build too. This is 
because of the `if(arr)` warnings. I think there are pull 
requests waiting[2] but until they are merged a few of the tools 
are broken which breaks the whole build. Dustmite also needs to 
be amended upstream[3].

[1]: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/wwktjyurctmdffmfevst forum.dlang.org
[2]: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/166/files
[3]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite
Apr 19 2015
parent "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 19:38:14 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:

 Also the tools repository needs work to build too. This is 
 because of the `if(arr)` warnings. I think there are pull 
 requests waiting[2] but until they are merged a few of the 
 tools are broken which breaks the whole build. Dustmite also 
 needs to be amended upstream[3].


Waiting on definitive yes/no regarding the compiler change and 
code breakage from Walter/Andrei.
Apr 19 2015