Dear all To follow-up on my earlier postings on the WIP-Day suggestion. I think it is worthwhile to give it a go, so if nobody has any comments or suggestions I'll post the following in the Forum in 48 hours.
------------------------- Work-In-Progress Day (WIP-Day) New things are happening these days – Kamikaze is officially released, new hardware platforms are being added and there will soon come a move to the 2.6.22 kernel. It can be overwhelming to keep track of all these new developments, and difficult for individuals who wants to participate active to find out where to begin? I would therefore like to suggest a new initiative which will start-out under the title: Work-In-Progress Day It is the intention to organize a monthly working day (24 hours) similar to the Gentoo projects bugday: www.gentoo.org/proj/en/bugday/index.xml The Gentoo bugday is a monthly "day" (24 hours during a weekend) focussed on fixing "bugs" in both distribution and packages. In practice it takes place on IRC, and the aim is to make it possible for everyone to participate in fixing a "bug" (independent of skills and experience). There is an official list of "bugs" which is posted before the day starts, and various developers/committers help people who take part with learning how to do this (this was the very short version of what goes on). As it is stated on the Gentoo website: “... every first saturday of a month, a bugday is hosted on #gentoo-bugs, on irc.freenode.net. During the whole day, users pick bugs from the list presented on bugday.gentoo.org and, with the possible help of attending devs, try and fix them....” It is the aim of the Gentoo bugday to function as a way of helping people to participate in the activities of the project and at the same time function as a social forum. I would like to suggest that something similar was introduced as part of the activities of OpenWrt? Though, I have to admit that I believe the concept itself would have to be changed somewhat. There are many different things which can be worked on: Hardware platforms, porting of packages, documentation, localization and so forth. I would like to suggest that a needs/offers model is followed instead. One person, or group could offer to work on porting on packages – teaching/helping others to do this – while similar others could could state a need for working on a specific platform (or device). This initiative could start-out with using the forum for posting of offers/needs and host the “day” itself on #openwrt-devel, combined with posting 'what are we doing' emails on openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org – these emails could then be merged together into a monthly newsletter. When to begin with this new activity? I would like to suggest that a first WIP-Day could take place either after the official move to the 2.6.22 kernel or (just to pick a date) saturday the 30. of June from UTC 12.00 and 24 hours ahead. glp --------------------------- -- Gregers Petersen, Anthropologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wireless-ownership.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
