We are looking forward to seeing you!''

Indeed! :-)

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We're running 13th Hackathon February 19-22 2010,
come and join us on IRC channel #netbsd-code at FreeNode (irc.freenode.net).
You may choose other ways to participate, if you find it more convenient.
See Hackathon page for updates: http://wiki.netbsd.se/Hackathon13


Goal

Fix as many bugs as possible, close as many PRs as possible.


Details

In previous years we have accumulated a lot of problem reports.
Some of them relate to no longer supported branches (e.g. 2.0)
and were occasionally fixed during regular code work.
Some of them relate to hardware developers don't have access to.
Some of them may be too easy to fix, but noone looks at that part
of code (e.g. documentation).
Some of them relate to packages already removed or heavily reworked.
Some of them relate to packages in exotic environment (Solaris, Interix)
and developers cannot test if the bug is present or not.

You can find more in PR database at http://netbsd.org/support/query-pr.html


More specifically, David Holland maintains categorized lists of PRs at

  http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/

of which "Wanted for 5.1" 

(http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/51-WANTED.html)
and "Stuck" (http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/STUCK.html)
are of particular interest.

Another hot area is pkgsrc 
(http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/buglists/pkgsrc.html).


IMPORTANT NOTE: You don't have to be programmer to be able to help us,
you can help us with generic testing support.  

Come, bring your favourite booze, and join in!

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There's quite a bit to do, so if you have time -> join in!

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On a side note, it also seems that one or more people got quite some pkgsrc karma and possibly a new mail address in the process. :)

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• Introduction
• Release engineering, Sendmail, and kauth
• PaX, fileassoc, and Veriexec
• Linux compat, XFree86, pkgsrc, proplib, and Xen
• Filesystems
• iSCSI and optical disc support
• Bluetooth, mobile devices, agr
• Google Summer of Code
• Hackathons and funding

Useful links: the general Hackathon wiki page, NetBSD's hackathon page.

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Make options.mk files for packages that don`t already use them, and improve support for options if the package uses them but more options could be added.''

See Adam's posting for more information, and see also the Wiki page for this 7th hackathon.

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The fifth NetBSD Hackathon took place from Friday, 6th of April, until Sunday, 8th of April 2007. Titled "docathon", the main focus was on bringing the NetBSD WWW pages and documentation into a consistent and more up-to-date state. Here are the results:

• All .list files that are not related to translations have been converted
• Many of the ports pages were previously either available in XML or HTML. To unify them, all the HTML-pages have been converted to XML (or are under conversion).
• The wscons FAQ has been converted and merged into the NetBSD Guide's "console drivers" section.
• Other parts of the documentation previously only available in plain HTML have been converted to XML.
• Obsolete ports pages have been removed in the process of the sh5 and evhsh5 port removal which happended during this weekend, new ports paves have been properly linked.
• Various minor updates and fixes have been applied

Overall, the event was a great success, and given esp. the short notice still a number of people have helped to make it so - thank you very much to all of them!

If you want to learn more about the 5th NetBSD Hackathon, you can find information at the NetBSD.se Wiki at http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php?title=Hackathon5. People interested in working on any of the open issues feel free to communicate via the netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org mailing list.

Let me add a few notes on my own:

• The NetBSD.se Wiki is a WONDERFUL tool for short-term, online collaboration and management of working lists
• Our documentation needs more reading, and consecutive updates. We should do a Readathon soon. :)
• Emacs with nxml-mode (pkgsrc/textproc/nxml-mode) is a nice tool for updating documentation, esp. one with bad structure and lots of missing closing links.

Jörg Sonnenberger has sent mail with more details to tech-pkg@.

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The event was again guided by Elad Efrat, who has also posted a report on the bugathon, see his mail to the netbsd-users list. Given the recent rumours about NetBSD dying, having no momentum, etc. that's quite a step forward, and it also served as an example for others.

Further events of this kind are planned, though they will likely be more focussed, going away from picking the low-hanging fruits^WPRs and aiming e.g. at specific areas like pkgsrc, support of certain hardware platforms, etc. Check out the NetBSD Hackathon webpage for updates!

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