Hi everybody, Just some quick information for those of you who are interested in working on Darcs at ZuriHac Pre-sprint meeting - Fri 12:00; pizzeria ----------------------------------------- We'll be meeting for lunch at Friday noon at the Pizzeria Santa Lucia Niederdorf (Marktgasse 21), near the City Backpacker hostel. Details on http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03 This will be a great chance for introductions (especially for new or potential Darcs hackers). On the agenda: - prioritising ProbablyEasy bugs for new Darcs hackers - plans for the sprint (news, other meetings, discussions, etc) Get your laptops ready! ----------------------- You'll have more fun if you can hit the ground running, so please make sure you can do all of these things: 1. darcs get --lazy http://darcs.net 2. cabal configure; cabal build 3. darcs send (your patch should wind up on the tracker) #3 is especially important. Here's the quick start 3a. create a test patch (see http://darcs.net/report.html ) 3b. see http://wiki.darcs.net/Msmtp 3c. darcs send 3d. wait 10 minutes 3e. check the patch tracker http://bugs.darcs.net (Patches > Show Open) Travel reimbursements possible ------------------------------ Thanks to a successful fundraising effort, we will be able to reimburse travel costs for folks working on Darcs. Do let me know if you're interested, and please save your receipts! If you have electronic tickets, I think that's fine (perhaps even better); please email them to me. More information on the wiki --------------------------- Information about the sprint, including meetings and maps will be on http://wiki.darcs.net/Sprints/2010-03 It may be a good idea to darcs get --lazy http://wiki.darcs.net before you leave so that you have an up to date version of the wiki :-) Thanks to our donors for making this sprint possible and to Johan and the Zurich/Google crew for setting up this massive hackathon. Whee! -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9