On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 03:02:24PM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 12:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > > This will be a good opportunity to debrief from the hackfest and
> > > identify followup actions that the board should work on in coming
> > > months.
> > I'm almost done with collecting receipts from the hackfest and LGM.
> > We
> > spent roughly $7200 (plus or minus a few hundred dollars) out of
> > the
> > $13100 budgeted.
> >
> > This hackfest was very successful in my opinion. Part of the reason
> > it
> > was so successful was having (somewhat accidentally) critical
> > masses to
> > work on the CMake build as well as GTK3 problems. I think we could
> > duplicate this success by having some focused hacking sessions. In
> > particular, I think it would be quite beneficial to have a
> > gathering
> > focused on getting 0.92 out. A follow up gathering could focus in
> > fixing GTK 3 issues. Both these topics should be exciting to our
> > user
> > community which would help with raising funds to cover their costs.
> Excellent ideas all around.
>
> With releases traditionally the work falls into these categories:
>
>   0.  Getting tests to all pass and the build to build cleanly
>   1.  The actual release mechanics (make dist, signing, etc.)
>   2.  Translation
>   3.  Fixing release-critical bugs
>   4.  PR/announcement
>   5.  Website/infrastructure related bits and pieces
>
> Some of these may be better suited to co-location than others.  #0 I
> suspect is probably already in the bag, and #1 I've been working on
> behind the scenes so am not worried there.  Translation I think kind
> of
> by definition is going to be hard to do as a hackfest.  The PR and
> Website stuff probably would benefit from a hackfest but they're not
> areas likely to be blockers for us, although a strong case could be
> made
> from a fundraising perspective that it would be time well invested.
>
> I suspect for this release bugfixing is the biggest remaining hurdle,
> but I don't have anywhere close to a handle on what it's going to
> look
> like so who knows.  If we knew what bugs needed fixed the worst, and
> who
> the fixers would be, that would tell us the suitability of a hackfest
> and clue us in on where geographically it should be held.

Yes, I was thinking work category 3 as the primary reason to have a
release hackfest. Work on the other categories might also benefit from
a hackfest but not as much as 3.

> I'm guessing that there's enough of us typically involved in releases
> that are located in the western half of the US, that a west-coast or
> midwest location might be sensible, and might be a fair turn since
> we've
> had hackfests on the east coast and England.

It's a bit far away, but we will be able to send two people to the
Google Mentor Summit which is in the later part of October. So timing a
hackfest on the west coast at that time might be good. If not for a
release then perhaps for working on GTK3.

Tav

> Bryce

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