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
#140	Screen saver doesn't say how long you've been idle	low	jdreed	The Distant Future
#227	Improve semantics of attach/detach and add	low		The Distant Future
#268	debathena-moira-clients: missing manpages	low		The Distant Future
#283	debathena-workstation Live CD install doesn't display feedback	normal	xavid	Fall 2011
#354	re-enable Compiz	normal		Quantal Quetzal
#410	We need a public workstation verification script	normal		Current Semester
#474	debathena-thunderbird-config should configure newsgroups	low		The Distant Future
#523	Restore GUI browsing of course lockers	low		The Distant Future
#620	Build and package a zlogger for Debathena	normal		The Distant Future
#641	Enhance athinfo with a "long" or "human readable" flag for queries	trivial		The Distant Future
#649	Installer should offer to change your apt repo to mirrors.mit.edu	low	witchakk	The Distant Future
#691	Debug GTK+ printing authentication issues and fix them	trivial		Upstream Utopia
#705	Condense common GDM applet Python code	low		The Distant Future
#735	make a Dropbox installer	normal		The Distant Future
#808	athinfod should support packages adding their own queries	low		The Distant Future
#840	Phase out the auto-updater on -workstation in favor of unattended upgrades	normal		Current Semester
#870	save-cluster-info lacks a man page	low		The Distant Future
#1000	login chroots should support SSH sessions via containers	normal		The Distant Future
#1011	Give up on kexec for auto-upgrades	normal	jrjarvis	Precise Beta
#1018	Good UI for passing print jobs off to someone else	normal		The Distant Future
#1176	Story for screen on the dialups	normal		The Distant Future
#1261	Inactive SIAB sessions should get cleaned up	normal		Upstream Utopia
#1279	snapshot.debathena.org is broken	low		The Distant Future

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

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
#870	save-cluster-info lacks a man page	low		The Distant Future

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