• When and where
• Who
• What
• How: Darcs hacking quick start

When and where

• Sprint Americas

  • When: Friday 9 March
  • Where: Argentina, Cordoba (FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)

• Sprint Europe

  • When: Friday 30 March - Sunday 1 April

  • Where: UK, Southampton (University ECS department, building 59 (The 'Zepler Building') ground floor, seminar room 1)

    • directions (map from accomodation to bus stop | public transit)
    • accommodation? (this is 4 bedroom house, so if there's a few of us it would make sense for us to book it and spread the cost; otherwise, we may have to look for somewhat cheaper individual options)

Who

Americas:

• Guillaume Hoffmann
• Mathias Etcheverry
• Miguel Pagano

Europe:

• Eric Kow
• Owen Stephens
• Iago Abal
• BSRK Aditya
• You!

What

Starter tasks for new developers:

• http://tinyurl.com/darcs-probablyeasy2

Discussions:

• GSoC 2012
• Directions? - where to from here
• packs

How: Darcs hacking quick start

You'll have more fun if you can hit the ground running, so please make sure you can do all of these things:

1. darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net
2. cabal configure; cabal build

3. darcs send (your patch should wind up on the tracker)

   1. create a test patch (see http://darcs.net/report.html )
   2. see Msmtp for easiest setup or configure your MTA if you know how
   3. darcs send
   4. wait 10 minutes
   5. check the patch tracker http://bugs.darcs.net (Patches > Show Open)