Re: [Vala] Vala Bugfix Hackathon

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 17:36 +0100 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:
>   
> > How can we move on with the hackathon?
> >
> > I guess the central question is who apart from Jürg (who seems to be
> > very busy these days) has the knowledge to educate us how to fix certain
> > things in an upstream-acceptable way? These people are critical to such
> > a hackathon, hence we need them to dictate a date that would work.
> >     
>
> Okay, if noone of the elders are volunteering to help us moving Vala
> forward, then this pretty much kills the idea of the hackathon.
>
> Too bad.
>
>   
Yes, it's really sad to see that no one of the main developers can 
review patches,
reply mails or so...

I have more unreported bugs of vala-core, because I'm really losing the 
interest
of publishing them if there is no interest to fix them (...)

I really think a hackaton can solve this situation, but we need a reply 
from Jürg
to reorganize the current dead situation of the project where only vapi 
commits
are appearing in mainstream.

Another solution would be to create a comunity branch of the main git 
repo and
apply all those fixes there.

For the hackaton... well I think there are many things we can do without 
vala-core
devels. It's quite fun to hack on the source of vala, and I have managed 
to fix
some problems in this way. I dont really think that i'm good with it, 
but maybe
sharing those issues by irc we can try to solve these problems by our own.

I think that the main points for the hackaton would be:

 - Complete the documentation of the language (non-c#, non-java tutorial)
   - there are some things not explained in the tutorial, like the 
stack allocated arrays, etc..
   - we can probably start writing a book about vala, like the 
parrot/rakudo people is doing
     http://rakudo.org/node/58
 - Documentation for CCodes
 - Fix VAPIs (I have seen some typos like 'Ccode' and I have some local 
updates for curses.vapi f.ex..)
 - Review/report bug reports
 - Submit patches to solve the bugs

I'm missing something here?

--pancake