[hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
> D Hackathon!
>
> The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
> collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
> programming language.
>
> All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
> forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
> repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
> irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
> https://webchat.freenode.net).
>
> Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
> "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)
>
> Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
> friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
> lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
> of better documentation and tooling.
>
> Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
> experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
> We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
> preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
> you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
> getting good work done.
>
> See you in one week!
>
>
> Andrei

This sounds awesome!

I'm going to give the website and phobos documentation a pass 
making corrections and adding examples, beefing up, etc. So i'll 
trawl bugzilla looking for low hanging fruit/easy stuff to get my 
feet wet.

I've run into a few problems[1] with building the website and 
documentation. DMD, druntime and phobos all build easily but 
dlang.org sources are a pain. I wonder if anyone has built the 
website recently from scratch to make sure it all works?

Also the tools repository needs work to build too. This is 
because of the `if(arr)` warnings. I think there are pull 
requests waiting[2] but until they are merged a few of the tools 
are broken which breaks the whole build. Dustmite also needs to 
be amended upstream[3].

[1]: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/wwktjyurctmdffmfevst@forum.dlang.org
[2]: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/pull/166/files
[3]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite