A little organization and updates!

[mark]

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 fu and 4PM UTC on a Sunday. Reasonable?

Thanks!

Comments

[denise]

for the record: we don't have a lot of bugs open for making the install process easier, mostly because i don't do installs and mark has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep, but if you spot anything that should be changed to make the process easier please file bugs for it. it's not one of those priorities that springs to my mind often (see also: i don't do installs) but any work we can do to make the process better is a good thing.

i saw you asking in irc scrollback earlier today, meanwhile, and yes, we would love better install instructions (for a standalone setup, i mean, not for dreamhack type stuff) in the wiki. if you don't have an account already, talk to foxfirefey (and i think a few other people can do it too but i'm blanking on names) -- they'll get you hooked up.

[shadowspar]

Absolutely; will do! Actually, that's kinda how 4933 - Disused docbook docs still present came about -- I mentioned encountering the old docs in the dev channel, and Dre was like "OMG we still have those? O_o Can you please file a bug for that?"

Too, I've been tuning up minor discrepancies in the Scratch Installation wiki doc as I find them, but I'm happy to take that page and related ones and reshape them a bit more dramatically as I come to grok the process of installing and running the code a bit more completely. =)

[denise]

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