Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Not really an RT, this was suggested by David Crossley yesterday (or > sometime earlier, my body clock feels funny this morning ;-) > > Could we have a monthly "virtual hackathon" on the first Friday of each > month? > > Suggestions: > > -Takes place on the first Friday of every month
I like that ... FirstFriday is able to be remembered. Friday/Saturday is a good day - part work, part non-work. So the first one would be 7 November. > -Lasts about 24 hours, Yes, one rotation gives the whole planet a chance to be involved. > from whenever someone sends a mail here saying > that they're waiting for others to join I think that it should start at a specific time. We know that it is always on ... just be there when you can. My suggestion is 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time. If each developer and user would do just one little thing on the day then that would be powerful. > -Use IRC for real-time coordination We would need to have good etiquette. I have stayed away from IRC because i thought that it would degenerate into a mess. Email has bad signal/noise ratio, so would not chat be worse. Anyway, i am happy to try any tool that increases our productivity. Also Apache projects need recorded transactions, hence email and bugzilla for accountability and decision-making. Could we stick with email for co-ordination? --David > -Use normal bugzilla coordination once someone actually starts working > on a bug > > -Possibly use SubEthaEdit or similar whiteboarding tools [1] for pair > programming/reviews > > -The goal is to close as many Bugzilla issues as possible, or bring > them to a useful state (asking for clarifications etc) > > How does this sound? > -Bertrand > > [1] I once tried coccinella (http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/), it is > great and very lightweight, cross-platform, uses Jabber for > communication so no firewall problems
