I was thinking about the past hackathons and I realized that the interaction with
eachother is often the best way to learn during these events, it's so much quicker
than using gerrit/bugzilla/email/IRC.
I also remember that a lot of the time, we do a lot of informal review and assessment of
problems during these events.
This time we have a very nice "How to get your code deployed on Wikimedia"
workshop. Perhaps in addition to that, it might be a nice idea to do a live "office
hour" dedicated to bug assessment and code review ?
People could submit bug reports and gerrit changesets (etherpad?) and then we pick one
hour, where a group of us simply try to help people with these issues in any form.
We'd have multiple disciplines and areas of expertise being able to chip in, which
should be great for the attendees with "why does no one pay attention to my
bugreport/patch"-issues.
Does anyone else think something like that might be a nice idea ?
We'd need to find a timeslot though, that's probably gonna be the hardest part.
I'm guessing that many WMF folks will have quite a few meetings again.
DJ