Hackathon11
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This page supports the 11th Hackathon, May 24-25 2008.
Location: irc.freenode.net channel #netbsd-code
The goal of this hackathon is to kick off the pre-5.0-branch feature freeze by sitting down to tackle bugs off the releng list for the 5.0 branch... or any other bugs you like whose fixes aren't too invasive for a freeze period.
Note that the goal of this hackathon is not to go close old stale PRs. Enough of these have been tidied away that it should be feasible to find real, interesting PRs to work on. If you come across stale PRs, make a note of them for later but let's not spend the weekend looking for them.
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The releng 5.0 PR list
The releng list of PRs are the ones we really want to get fixed.
Unfortunately, by its nature, problems that make this list tend to be difficult.
Other possibly worthwhile PRs
dholland's list of PRs for 5.0
Stuck PRs
This is a list of PRs on which progress is stalled because they require hardware or setup that most people don't have.
Many of these are not really worth working specifically on this weekend, but if you happen to have the hardware...
- 2727 SCSI tape
- 2742 3com 3c595
- 2921 mac68k SCSI
- 3842 ccd(4)
- 5133 mac68k SCSI
- 5228 EtherTalk
- 5301 mac68k EtherPort
- 5439 LASAT CREDIT288 FAXMODEM
- 5459 68040 floating point issues
- 5552 Starlan ethernet
- 6200 Shark rev 5
- 6446 Multia
- 6753 Soundblaster Pro
- 9746 issues with cdplay(1)
- 9786 ppp/chat/modem setup
- 10530 token ring
- 13342 macppc G4
- 13545 macppc S900
- 18818 .de USB keyboard
- 19379 Sony GRX690 notebook
- 22316 1GHz 15" PowerBook
- 25026 PowerMac 7600/132
- 27099 68040
- 31110 SiS650 IDE
- 34477 ipw(4)
- 34498 "powerbook5,8"
This is not a complete list by any means, but it's a start. Ideally it would also be possible to retrieve this list by asking GNATS, but currently there's no way to do that.
Also, if you have a ypserv(8) or timed(8) setup you can test patches on, there are things you can help with. Ask on irc.
Searching for PRs
Use the query-pr web page.
The best way of finding interesting PRs with the web form, IME, is to choose a specific combination of category, severity, and priority (this limits the number returned to something halfway sane) and page through the results. This is still not very good, which is why we try to get lists posted.
It can also be interesting to look for PRs that haven't been modified in a long time.
It would be helpful if someone with suitable access added a button to the web page to retrieve a random non-closed PR. Short of wading through the entire list of open PRs that's the best way I know of to run across interesting things.
Other things
Reviewing and updating the install docs is always worthwhile.
If you have a non-x86 machine, try running the regression tests, both the atf tests and the older tests in src/regress.
