What to Expect at Hackergarten

The goal of Hackergarten is for you to make a contribution to an open source framework.

You will show up with (possibly) no open source experience and leave as an official contributor: code written, tested, documented, and integrated.  

We'll spend a few minutes dividing up into groups and then each group will work on a task for some framework. Once in a small group then you are free to do whatever you want: vi, IDEA, Eclipse, pairing, cowboy coding, whatever. Just try to get your task finished (which means tested and documented too, right?)! 

Some advice: Thinks Small. The night ends when the software is released, not when it is half done or when you have a good start. Also, try not to over-eat pizza because it will just make you tired. Caffeine is your friend, carbohydrates the enemy. These are just suggestions of course. 

Right now, here are a few of project ideas (feel free to bring your own): 

Gradle Ideas

• PMD plugin

• Findbugs Plugin

• IDEA Inspections plugin for Groovy and Java inspections

• Gradle GDSL for IDEA support

Griffon Ideas

• JxBrowser Plugin to display Flash

• Ehcache Plugin

• Griffon GDSL file for IntelliJ IDEA support

Groovy Ideas

• NIO2 (OpenJDK7) Task Force - Define how Groovy should wrap and enhance the new JDK7 NIO2 API. 

GPars

• PDF User Guide Generation with grails-doc

• Fix document generation so that loads of harmless exceptions are not thrown

• Gaelyk

Json-lib integration

• "REST" client plugin

CodeNarc Static Analysis Rules

• Port rules from FindBugs