Hackfest planning

[Sergio Meneses]

Hi all!

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Javier P.L. <chilicuil at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 13/03/13 at 06:41pm, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> > I know we're all knee deep in testing this week, but I would like to
> > talk about planning for our next hackfest. We've done 3 so far this
> > cycle, and I'd like to squeeze in one more if we can before beta2
> > testing.
> >
> > I'd love to hear preferred days/times, what you'd like to see
> > covered / format (IRC vs g+ vs ?), etc. I'd like to see manual and
> > automated tests being written and hacked on as part of the 'fest.
> > Now is the time to get your feedback in :-)
>

IRC would be better (imho) but we can try G+ as well


> >
> > To give you something concrete to work against, here's my thoughts
> > on how I would run the fest.
> >
> > We'll pick a 2-4? hour window on IRC on freenode in #ubuntu-quality
> > We'll encourage pending open bugs, aka, needed cases, to be try and
> > closed as part of the fest
> > We'll commit and merge everything possible at the end of the fest
> > We'll celebrate with virtual party supplies once complete :-)
> >
>
> Cool, I'd like to see it for 1 full day instead of some specific hours, it
> works
> better for me at weekends but I don't expect other persons to be as
> antisocial
> as me =)
>
>
+1 I think weekends is better for all us...


> In my opinion I think it could follow the same format as the Ubuntu Bug
> day[0],
> which means a list of todo items should be generated somewhere (probably
> the
> wiki) and everyone could be able work on the ones that they want. In such
> format
> I'd like to see extra help on #ubuntu-quality, I mean, I've always been
> able to
> find help in there when needed, however I think it'd great if quality
> members
> could commit to be in there at specific hours depending of their time
> zones so
> voluntaries can find specially welcoming quality members waiting for them.
>

I had the chance to participate in the bug day and its format is very cool!
maybe we can add some ideas.


>
> Just my 2 cents, I'm looking forward for participating =)
>
> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay
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