Re: gEDA-user: gEDA code sprint this coming weekend (April 3rd)

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi --

> Can you briefly outline what the purpose of this exercise is for those of us 
> who are somewhat new to gEDA?  Or is it one of those things, "If you have to 
> ask, you probably aren't interested"?

A code sprint is a one day gathering of developers (and other
interested parties) with the purpose of working on the project with
minimal distractions.  Here's a Wikipedia article about code 
sprints [1]:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)

It's a useful mechanism for us erstwhile gEDA developers to set aside
other projects and spend some quality time concentrating on hacking
and improving one or another of the gEDA tools.  We'll also spend time
discussing recent events affecting the project itself.

I shouldn't ignore the social side of the sprint:  at least some of
the developers live around Boston, MA, and a sprint represents an
opportunity to hang out for a day and enjoy each other's jokes.  Folks
who don't live near Boston can show up on the gEDA IRC channel, but
sometimes the jokes don't translate.....   ;-)

For me it's a good time to get off my rear and apply patches which
have accumulated over the months, and try to fix a bug or two in one
of my programs.

HTH,

Stuart

[1]  I must say that our code sprints are somewhat less structured
than the type of sprint described in the Wikipedia article.  But it
will give you the jist of what we are trying to achieve.


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