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')}

Other things you can do:

•  make a config package for SIPB office heads
• figure out how to integrate the Live CD installer with Debathena; see also #702 (which geofft is working on)

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

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