Third NetBSD Hackathon Summary

jschauma writes, "The third NetBSD Hackathon was held on Saturday and Sunday, November 25th and 26th, 2006. NetBSD users and developers met on IRC to prepare NetBSD for the upcoming re-branching of NetBSD 4.0. Approximately thirty NetBSD developers and more than 140 NetBSD users joined in on the two days, paying particular attention to improving install documentation and ensuring build stability. A Wiki page as a TODO list was used for the first time, an approach that is likely to be used in future hackathons. All in all, over 200 bugs have been worked on in those two days and while not all of the critical showstoppers could be fixed, valuable progress was made in identifying root causes."

Comments

Nice to see Wiki software used

[Alkivar]

It's really nice to see Wiki software used for it's original purpose, and used properly. Hopefully the NetBSD team continues to keep a wiki in mind during the next hackathon.

i wish i had the time

[eneville]

i wish i had the time to actually contribute, or even read the netbsd kernel. it's got a lot of potential. sometimes i wonder how the linux kernel became more popular than the bsds. net/open do seem more stable in some ways.