wiki:HackathonTopics

Hackathons

Debathena is an ideal project to work on during a hackathon. While help with any of our tickets is always appreciated, the following tickets have been identified as ideal for hackathon work. If you plan to work on a ticket during a hackathon, be sure to "Accept" the ticket to change the owner to you. If it already has an owner, consider dropping that person an e-mail saying that you intend to start working on the ticket. That way they can send you any tips or existing code they may have.

Ticket Summary Priority Owner Milestone Keywords
#410 We need a public workstation verification script normal Current Semester hackathon
#474 debathena-thunderbird-config should configure newsgroups low The Distant Future hackathon
#523 Restore GUI browsing of course lockers low The Distant Future hackathon
#620 Build and package a zlogger for Debathena normal The Distant Future hackathon
#641 Enhance athinfo with a "long" or "human readable" flag for queries trivial The Distant Future hackathon
#649 Installer should offer to change your apt repo to mirrors.mit.edu low witchakk The Distant Future hackathon
#691 Debug GTK+ printing authentication issues and fix them trivial Upstream Utopia hackathon
#705 Condense common GDM applet Python code low The Distant Future hackathon
#735 make a Dropbox installer normal The Distant Future hackathon
#840 Phase out the auto-updater on -workstation in favor of unattended upgrades normal Current Semester hackathon
#870 save-cluster-info lacks a man page low The Distant Future hackathon newbie
#1000 login chroots should support SSH sessions via containers normal The Distant Future hackathon
#1018 Good UI for passing print jobs off to someone else normal The Distant Future hackathon
#1176 Story for screen on the dialups normal The Distant Future transition, hackathon
#1261 Inactive SIAB sessions should get cleaned up normal Upstream Utopia hackathon, c
#1279 snapshot.debathena.org is broken low The Distant Future hackathon

(to cause a ticket to appear in this list, use the keyword 'hackathon')

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Getting Started

Not all tickets require extensive experience with Debathena. The following tickets have been identified as ideal for people just starting out with Debathena development:

Ticket Summary Priority Owner Milestone Keywords
#870 save-cluster-info lacks a man page low The Distant Future hackathon newbie

(to cause a ticket to appear in this list, use the keyword 'newbie')