Ready for RTM*: Ubuntu Touch Core App Hack Days!
We’re running another set of Core Apps Hack Days next week. Starting Monday 30th June through to Friday 4th July we’ll be hacking on Core Apps, getting them polished for our upcoming RTM (Release To Manufacture) images. The goal of our hack days is as always to implement missing features, fix bugs, get new developers involved in coding on Ubuntu using the SDK and to have some fun hacking on Free Software.
For those who’ve not seen the hack days before, it’s really simple. We get together from 09:00 UTC till 21:00 UTC on #ubuntu-app-devel on freenode IRC and hack on the Core Apps. We will be testing the apps to destruction, filing and triaging bugs, creating patches, discussing and testing proposals and generally do whatever we can to get these apps ready for RTM. It’s good fun, relaxed and a great way to get started in Ubuntu app development with the SDK
We’ll have developers hanging around to answer questions, and can call on platform and SDK experts for assistance when required. We focus on specific apps each day, but as always we welcome contributions to all the core apps both during the designated days, and beyond.
Not just Core Apps
This time around we’re also doing things a little differently. Typically we only focus attention on the main community maintained Core Apps we ship on our device images. For this set of Hack Days we’d like to invite 3rd party community app developers to bring their apps along as well and hack with us. We’re looking for developers who have already developed their Ubuntu app using the SDK but maybe need help with the “last mile”. Perhaps you have design questions, bugs or feature enhancements which you’d like to get people involved in.
We won’t be writing your code for you, but we can certainly help to find experienced people to answer your questions and advise of platform and SDK details. We’d expect you to make your code available somewhere, to allow contributions and perhaps enable some kind of bug tracker or task manager. It’s up to you to manage your own community app, we’re here to help though!
Get involved
If you’re interested in bringing your app to hack days, then get in touch with popey (Alan Pope) on IRC or via email [popey@ubuntu.com] and we’ll schedule it in for next week and get the word out.
You can find out more about the Core Apps Hack Days on the wiki, and can discuss this with us on IRC in #ubuntu-app-devel.