[OH-Dev] Sprint details

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> Overall goal of OpenHatch
> -------------------------
>
> OpenHatch’s goal is to make the free software/open source community more 
> welcoming to newcomers. To do this, we provide curricula and logistical 
> support for running “Intro to Open Source” workshops, a website with links 
> to hopefully-easy bugs in other open source projects & a way to browse them 
> called the "volunteer opportunity finder," interactive teaching tools for 
> learning open source-related skills called "training missions", and several 
> other projects in progress.
>
>
> Goals of the sprint
> -------------------
>
> I don't know who all will be there, but my sense from IRC is that 
> MarkTraceur, britta, ArcTanSusan, and paulproteus at least will be there.
>
> I personally see the following as especially important things to work on:
>
> * Reviewing pull requests that fix existing issues, and giving people 
> feedback and/or merging them
>
> * Fixing urgent technical issues, such as http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue910
>
> * Finding ways to enable people to do more without unnecessary doubt and 
> without needing to await permission or explanation from another project 
> member (to me, this includes code reorganizing and documentation work), such 
> as http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue889 and 
> https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue911
>
> * Respond to bugs in the bug tracker, and find out which ones we can close 
> by deciding not to fix, or which ones are important issues that we should 
> prioritize
>
>
> To make that more clear:
>
> A base goal: Two pull requests have been reviewed. Two tests that fail with 
> MySQL now pass. Two bits of documentation have been read for clarity, and 
> clarity issues have been filed.
>
> A reach goal: Base goals plus: the goals and status of our summer GSoC 
> projects are been documented. Two extra pull requests reviewed, and at least 
> two have been merged. Two bits of documentation have pull requests submitted 
> or wiki edits made to improve clarity. We've chosen a ticket tracker to use 
> for hello at openhatch inbound mails, and have a plan for how to proceed 
> forward with that. We've done some Javascript re-organizing that improves 
> clarity, and makes it easier to document where our Javascript lives. (Reach 
> reach: We've documented more about our Javascript.)
>
> (I think that britta particularly had some additional personal goals.)
>
>
> Project setup
> -------------
>
> We have reasonably well-tested development environment setup instructions 
> for the main website code here: 
> http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html
>
> If you want to work on the bug importer code, its installation is documented 
> here: 
> http://oh-bugimporters.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html#installation
>
> General instructions for testing changes can be found here 
> <http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/handling_patches.html#test-your-changes>. 
> Specific tasks may have additional documentation (for instance, 
> documentation changes 
> <http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/documentation.html>.)
>
> OpenHatch’s guide to submitting changes can be found here 
> <http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/getting_started/handling_patches.html>.
>
> These installation instructions are tested nightly on Ubuntu 12.04 and 
> Debian stable. Last verified on Windows XP 11/7/2013 and on Mac in spring 
> 2013.
>
>
> Contact info
> ------------
>
> OpenHatch has two places for contact info, which we try to keep updated and 
> consistent with each other. There’s our contact info in the documentation 
> <http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/community/contact.html>, 
> primarily linked to from our source code repository, and our contact info in 
> the wiki <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Contact>, primarily linked to from the 
> website’s main page.

I forgot to remark:

We use a lot of IRC at OpenHatch, so we will during the sprint, too. 
That's described at https://openhatch.org/wiki/Contact

We will be tracking who is doing what during the sprint primarily in 
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ohsprint , so that it's very easy to see 
what's going on in real time by everyone at the sprint.

Plus feel free to talk to people with your actual voice!

After the sprint, development discussion continues at 
http://lists.openhatch.org/devel and by IRC, so you're 
encouraged to join those whenever you like, such as pre-sprint.