Hello,

I write from the train back to Oxford towards the end of the second day of our hackfest, and I'm very excited about what we've achieved. It probably doesn't look like much from the casual observer, since it's been entirely been unglamarous bugfixing, rather than enhancements, but I believe we've gone a long way towards escaping from the endless stream of dull bugs to fix. Aside from the obvious benefit of having fewer bugs, being able to clear the air (and the bugtracking system) will allow us to refocus on further development.

What we've done is looked at every single outstanding bug (defect in trac parlance) in OpenGuides and discussed what needs to happen with it around the table, and commented on the ticket. With a few exceptions, we've then assigned the bug to someone with an agreed path towards fixing the bug. Some of those bugs have now been resolved, and some of them are still pending fixes.

You can see the latter at http://dev.openguides.org/report/13 and http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/report/9

We hope to repeat the hackfest sometime before YAPC::Europe, with a view to ironing out any remaining bugs, and reviewing all the many enhancement requests (you can see those at

http://dev.openguides.org/report/12

).

Stay tuned for more details about the next hackfest.

Thanks must go to Kake for organising and hosting the hackfest. The format seemed to work really well and we managed to stay "on-topic" (bugfixing). Thanks also to those new faces who've helped bring a fresh outlook to the project (andrewb, ilmari, pfig, and klur) and of course to everyone else, for their contributions.

I plan to make a new release of OpenGuides (and probably Wiki::Toolkit) in around a week's time, to push out all the fixes. I'll prod people who have assigned tickets at that stage, so that I don't miss out any work that is soon to appear. http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/report/9

That's all for now, as my interchange station is fast approaching and there's still nearly a whole cup of tea to drink.

All the best,

Dominic.