First Bugfix Weekend

News posted on Wed, 2012-03-28 18:30

We'd like to invite every developer to our first Bugfix Weekend this weekend March 31st to April 1st. It's an idea recently brought up on the developer mailinglist that developers should regularly meet up virtually to solve bugs or enhancement tickets from our bugtracker together.

While it's a bit short notice, it fits nicely with the 25th BeGeistert meeting that is held on that same date in Düsseldorf. That way everyone can participate in the two day hackfest even if they can't make it there in person.
It's a nice opportunity for old and new developers to meet the rest of the gang and get more involved with Haiku development. Our Google Summer of Code students to be are especially invited to join, of course.

The Bugfix Weekend will be held on the Muscle server beshare.TyComSystems.com, accessed with BeShare (or JavaShare if you're not running Haiku). BeShare is a client for chatting and easily sharing files, which should be nice for quickly sharing some source files, pdfs or screenshots etc.
As alternative, there'll be a regular IRC channel #haiku-bugfixweekend at irc.freenode.net.

Comments

Re: First Bugfix Weekend

by ModeenF - 2012-03-29 14:03

Now I'm not nervous ;).. If the ported BeShare don't work the old 2.28 on bebits do work. It just doesn’t build. If any problem arais pleas report them :). Next version will support the upcoming Muscle 5.69b and have a nice Haiku icon, plans are also to use the Locale Kit instead of the built in version :)

Re: First Bugfix Weekend

by humdinger - 2012-03-29 17:14

The newly build BeShare 2.30 linked from the article works nicely on newer Haiku builds. It does not work with Alpha3. If anyone is still using that, BeShare 2.28 on Haikuware works on Alpha3, however. But since working on bugfixes for the current Haiku codebase pretty much has to be done on a cuurent Haiku build, Alpha3 shouldn't be an option anyway.

@ModeenF: Thanks for working on BeShare! I'm excited to see what you'll come up with for future revisions. Do you look for ideas? Should thse be posted to BeShare's bugtracker at OsDrawer.net?

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: First Bugfix Weekend

by ModeenF - 2012-03-30 05:15

@Humdinger : thanks. Pleas do :)

Re: First Bugfix Weekend

by ribbonz - 2012-03-29 17:18

So all Haiku bugs will be fixed this weekend?

Awesome!!!!

;)

Re: First Bugfix Weekend

by tqh - 2012-03-30 16:44

Nah, this is the weekend when we add new ones. Can you find them all? :)