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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."
If only this was a sign that the "a wiki is the solution to EVERYTHING" mentality is dying off.
Mini-rant mode --
Open Source pet-peeve: using a wiki for documentation. Expecting the users (the oh-so-often-spoken-of "community") to write your documentation for you is lazy. I know developers usually prefer not to deal with documentation. I understand the appeal of throwing something out there and having the users document it so you don't have to. But please, PLEASE, let the wiki-as-documentation phenomenon die. There's nothing more annoying than trying to find out how to do something and get a one sentence "this entry is a stub, you can add more!" comment. If I KNEW how to use that feature, I wouldn't be searching for it.