Sprints/2012-03

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)

Who

Americas:

  • Guillaume Hoffmann
  • Mathias Etcheverry
  • Miguel Pagano

Europe:

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

What

Starter tasks for new developers:

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)