D Hackathon: April 25 - May 1

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

Hi everyone,


This from the cycle "Walter's and Andrei's Crazy Ideas". We'd like to 
invite you all to a hackathon starting Saturday April 25 and ending 
Friday May 1st.

The idea is to spend a week concentrating efforts on writing code for 
all aspects of D (with a focus on, but not limited to, D's github 
repos). Should be fun! At the end of the week we'll count the bugs fixed 
and pulled PRs and compare them against the weekly average over the past 
few months. If it was productive in addition to fun, so much the better!

Rules are simple. Walter and I will observe them and invite others to 
join us:

* The focus will be to either work on a project that has been put on the 
backburner for a while, fix issues small and large, or simply review 
existing pull requests. You choose (For example I will work on making 
std.allocator ready for review.)

* Participation to forums will be minimal during the hackathon. The bulk 
of communication will occur on github and will be code-related.

* Focus is on fixing existing bugzilla issues (issues predating this 
announcement). New bugs fixed will receive extra scrutiny to make sure 
there's no gaming.

* Please no trolling/negativity. Do good work and good reviews.

* Saturday May 2nd we "meet" on the forum for the week's conclusion, 
measurements, discussions, emergent PRs and proposals, etc.

Pencil the dates in your calendar!


Andrei