Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Andreas Schiffler
Sounds great ... I would try myself on the SDL and SDL_gfx libraries which should already have working VS2010 csproj files (contributed by me last year). As for prizes: T-shirts are always welcome, as are Kinect units (especially since the SDK is coming out soon). C

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Adam Baxter
winners get their MSDN subs renewed? ;) On Jun 3, 2011 1:15 AM, "Garrett Serack" wrote: > Hey folks, > > (not an official announcement yet!) > > We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source projects a

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Rafael Rivera
re: prize quantity/quality -- I think we should focus on many smaller items, to get closer to "everyone wins something". /rafael On 6/2/2011 8:15 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: Hey folks,   (not an

Re: [Coapp-developers] A new member in CoApp

2011-06-02 Thread Rafael Rivera
Can't wait till you get to play with Trace :D /rafael On 6/2/2011 8:30 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: I’d also like to introduce a new member of our team; Tim Rogers.   Tim is a new full time employee

Re: [Coapp-developers] A new member in CoApp

2011-06-02 Thread Eric Schultz
Welcome Tim! We're happy to have you on board! *throws a rock* On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: > I’d also like to introduce a new member of our team; Tim Rogers. > > > > Tim is a new full time employee at Microsoft who started this week, and as > he just found out yesterd

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Eric Schultz
I think it's a cool idea! As for prizes, Github itself might be someone to talk to. In a lot of cases this will be using the fork functionality and that's Github's claim to fame, so to speak. Hell they might even be willing to promote it on their blog. I think the issue of the type of prizes is d

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Eric Schultz
I had no idea that Github issue tracking was that awesome. DAMN. I love it here :) On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Garrett Serack wrote: > Wow. Github’s issue tracking is freakin’ awesome. > > > > Everyone: WATCH THE VIDEO. (Especially *Elizabeth*, who seems to uncover > bugs by just breathing.

[Coapp-developers] GitHub "Pages" Feature.

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
I can't believe I didn't see this until now. Github has a way of building a website hosted right on Github itself-including pointing our custom domains right to it. http://pages.github.com/ describes the how-to regarding using pages. Apparently, we can also use pages with something called Jekyl

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
Wow. Github's issue tracking is freakin' awesome. Everyone: WATCH THE VIDEO. (Especially Elizabeth, who seems to uncover bugs by just breathing.) G From: Tom Hanrahan Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:54 AM To: Garrett Serack; coapp-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: RE: Shallow-forking cont

Re: [Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Tom Hanrahan
Garrett, Since you raised the subject of "bugs filed," this would be a good time to talk about how we want to manage bug reporting. It turns out Github's bug tracking system is incredibly easy to use. Each repository has an issue tracker. So, for example, coapp/trace and coapp-packages/gzip

[Coapp-developers] A new member in CoApp

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
I'd also like to introduce a new member of our team; Tim Rogers. Tim is a new full time employee at Microsoft who started this week, and as he just found out yesterday (his first day in the office), is going to be working as a full-time test resource for CoApp. Tim has a few words about himself

[Coapp-developers] Upcoming Build: CoApp Beta 1

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
My last round of testable builds was a couple months back, and I consider those to be the 'alpha' build of CoApp. Now that we're getting to the point where Autopackage (the much simpler alternative to our first attempt, mkPackage) can build packages I think it's time to put out a Beta Build, th

[Coapp-developers] Shallow-forking contest!

2011-06-02 Thread Garrett Serack
Hey folks, (not an official announcement yet!) We're reaching a stage in the CoApp project where we can really use the help of Windows developers to assist us in shallow forking open source projects as a precursor to producing actual CoApp packages for products and libraries. I have an idea to