On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 13:57 Europe/Rome, Michael Melhem wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:50:00AM +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Could we have a monthly "virtual hackathon" on the first Friday of each
month?
Suggestions:
-Takes place on the first Friday of every month
-Use IRC for real-time coordination
-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?Perhaps the IRC session should be logged (by a channel bot?) and then the transcript mailed to the cocoon-dev mailing list so that the discussion can be archived. This would negate the "synchronous" nature of an IRC meet and alleviate fears that some of the desgin discussions/decisions would be effectively taken "off line" with the introduction of IRC.
Or maybe put in the wiki? (it could need a little rediting afterwards, like placing links to thinks and so on)
I like the idea though: solidified higher-bandwidth discussions, maybe with the dumps of a shared whiteboard.
I like the idea of us experimenting with new tools and ways to collaborate.
Will not replace email, for sure, asynchronicity and low-tech is too important for worldwide acceptance, but might help improving things during intensive design (brainstorming on a virtual whiteboard) or intensive polishing (pre-releasing, testing, bugfixing).
-- Stefano.
