Hackfest

Posted by Pratik Naik August 06, 2008 @ 12:49 PM

And once again, hackfest is back. Only this time, it’s better than ever, thanks to Git

The idea is quite simple. You get 5000 points for each of your patches that get merged to the core. The person with the highest points at the end of the month wins.

August hackfest is already on and almost 3 more weeks to go, so hack on for the first prize – a free pass to RailsConf Europe ( special thanks goes to O’Reilly for the prize )

If you’ve never contributed to Rails before, now is a good time. This railscast is a nice head start.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to Rails, making it better and better.

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  1. Emilio Tagua (miloops) on 06 Aug 13:12:

    Cool!!!

    Pratik, thank you for bringing back Hackfests once again.

    And for those wondering about the hackfest source code, you can find it here:

    http://github.com/lifo/hackfest/tree/master/

    See you @ git-log

  2. Christian Lupp on 06 Aug 13:55:

    Great! Again a cool action to stimulate our developer community! Thanks a lot to Pratik and the whole core team!

  3. Paweł Kondzior on 06 Aug 18:33:

    Cool idea. But who is responsible for 98 open patches that are already committed to LH. Do anyone in core team care about reviewing patches committed by community ?

    Well I’m bit upset that there is no response in tickets with my patches and I’m probably not only one in Rails LH. It’s even better to just post that this or that patch is wrong than just ignoring it.

  4. jazzyb on 06 Aug 19:29:

    You rock lifo!!

  5. Pratik on 06 Aug 19:34:

    Hi Paweł,

    We constantly try to review open patches. If you want more people to look at your patches, you should always try to send an email to core mailing list and also, try to catch a core member in #rails-contrib channel.

    Thanks!

  6. Anil Wadghule on 07 Aug 03:35:

    Hey nice,

    I was waiting for this for long time.

    Thanks Pratik.

    —Anil

  7. Vectorpedia on 09 Aug 14:53:

    Great contest guys !

  8. Senthil Nayagam on 09 Aug 23:47:

    Hi Pratik,

    I have submitted a patch for check_box and check_box_tag helpers

    http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/789-checkbox-generation-with-false

    hope to catch you when you come online on #rails-contrib

    Senthil

  9. Website on 11 Aug 00:14:

    I think the ruby on rails website really needs some work. It should really be updated (it still recommends fast-cgi). I think the website is some way needs more attention then rails itself because that is the first thing people see when they hear about rails.

  10. ruby on rails developer on 12 Aug 15:26:

    I agree, as a new developer the documentation now sucks. Thankfully when I started, it was pretty reasonable but it has definitely become neglected. Despite the lure of fame, notoriety, and free tix I’m busy for the next month so I can’t get involved in hackfest or go to RailsConf. Maybe I’ll start doing something like the django book for rails after that though.

    Time will tell

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