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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2013-03-04 01:08 pm
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A little organization and updates!

Hi all!

I've been doing some poking around and realized that I don't have a good overall state-of-the-DW-development. I have some vague ideas about what some people are working on and interested in, but I wanted to make those vague ideas become a bit less vague. :)

If you have a few minutes, I'd appreciate you taking the time to answer a couple of quick questions here!

  1. Are you actively working on a bug (or several) right now? Which ones?
  2. What are you interested in working on -- broadly or narrowly, what do you want to do? (Or are you just open for suggestions?)
  3. Is there anything explicitly blocking you from doing what you want? (Knowledge, someone has the bug claimed for a year, need a hand with something, etc.)
  4. Free form! Anything you want to say or ask. :)

I also want us to have another development focused chat like we did some months ago. I think the last one I did was well timed for US developers but bad for EU, so I'll go the other way this time. I'm thinking something like 8AM Pacific which is midnight for [personal profile] fu and 4PM UTC on a Sunday. Reasonable?

Thanks!

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[personal profile] kareila 2013-03-05 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
1. 215 & 177, for very generous definitions of "active" meaning I have unsubmitted work done.
2. I like to work on Perl-heavy, mostly backend stuff. I can do SQL queries, I can do UI/CSS in a pinch, I've kind of learned my way around S2, and I can debug JS sometimes... but Perl is my happy place.
3. Lots of other more urgent commitments, but I've recently backed off on a lot of other things to make more time for DW. Not quite there yet, but I'm hoping by April.
4. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

On a Sunday, that's when I'm generally at church, so I'd probably have to show up late. Any other time on a Sunday would be fine...
mark: A photo of Mark kneeling on top of the Taal Volcano in the Philippines. It was a long hike. (Default)

[staff profile] mark 2013-03-09 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be really nice to get 215 in, and I know Denise wants 177. Is there something I can do to help with them, or is it mostly waiting on the vagaries of life?

Commitments -- yeah, it seems that it's a busy time for lots of people. I'm trying to do the same sort of dance to reprioritize and/or cut things so that I have more time to work on DW. It's working... slowly, though. Honestly half of my problem is just saying "and now I'm going to focus on DW" instead of "hey, I could go play EVE!" Heh.

Re: meeting, I was a little worried about doing Saturday since people might have plans. I'd like to have you there if possible, though, so perhaps Saturday is the better day. (Or perhaps I will just have to do it twice!)
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