DConf 2017 Hackathon report

[Nemanja Boric via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 at 16:14:57 UTC, Nemanja Boric wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 at 04:35:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Please list what we've achieved during the hackathon, 
>> including what is started but is likely to be finished in the 
>> coming days or months.
>>
>> For me:
>>
>> - Finished updating "Programming in D" to 2.074.0 (the HTML is 
>> now up to date but I could not get to the still manual work of 
>> preparing the ebooks)
>>
>> - Contributed to the logo and branding discussions
>>
>> - Opened two bugs
>>
>> - Ate German cookies :)
>>
>> Ali
>
> I've fixed the FreeBSD-Current exception handling issue, so
> that exception handling is now working there as well (I also 
> suspect
> that it was broken pretty much on all libundwind 64bit systems, 
> just worked by accident, since the optimizer didn't try too 
> hard.
>
> It's something I wanted to do for a long time, but there's 
> never time,
> so having a day dedicated to it was pretty helpful!
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16856
>
> It was pretty cool finding Jonathan who filed the bug in the 
> same room, then
> chasing Walter to talk about it, after hearing all war stories, 
> including,
> but not limited to, blue meteors.

Oh, also working with Martin and chasing him around the rooms to 
get
my druntime PR for fiber stack overflow protection 
(https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1698)
merged after months and months is also worth mentioning, although 
it didn't happen during the hackaton :-)