Bioconda Contribution Fest: 2-3 November

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With all the changes that will come in the next weeks and a few open issues concerning the overall quality of our packages I thought about organizing an online contribution fest. Maybe over one or two days, where we all gather together (online) and work on some specific tasks.

Our first Contribution Fest will be on the 2-3 November! We will have an IRC channel (maybe gitter?) and a google hangout in place.

We will start with a short presentation of all ideas and try to create small groups to tackle problems small groups. I guess it's a good idea if you fork bioconda-recipes and get your own travis setup up and running so we avoid the travis bottleneck.

Some ideas on what we can work on:

• [ ] more tests: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/issues/2276
• [ ] improving documentation
• [ ] getting more packages to build under OSX
• [ ] interest in setting up Windows builds?
• [ ] betting travis testing - fail early! https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/issues/1860
• [ ] perl/R packages should be migrated into a subdir
• [ ] convert all packages from git_url to url
• [ ] transition generic packages (ex. scala, generic pypi packages) from bioconda to conda-forge
• [ ] Implement security enhancements (e.g. #2327)
• [ ] Perhaps we should set up a doodle poll for a "kickoff" google hangout of 1 hour, something like the opening session of a conference or a meet-and-greet?

Moreover, we have some issue that could be worked on: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/labels/hackathon

PreHack preparation:

• FAQs: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/FAQs.md
• Please try to get your own fork to work with Travis. I think if we all push to the main repository for testing travis will be busy and we don't get anything done.
• please read also https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/blob/master/README.md I found this quite informative and for example the python/setuptools example could be established here as well

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There will be a bunch of people from all over the world my hope/guess is that 24h someone will be available ... :-)

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@bioconda/all just a few our and we will start our first bioconda hackathon. Please prepare yourself with our PreHack list:

PreHack preparation:

• FAQs: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/FAQs.md
• Please try to get your own fork to work with Travis. I think if we all push to the main repository for testing travis will be busy and we don't get anything done.
• please read also https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/blob/master/README.md I found this quite informative and for example the python/setuptools example could be established here as well

Moreover, we have tagged Issues that seems to be suitable for a Hackathon, please see: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/labels/hackathon

See you all on gitter: https://gitter.im/bioconda/Lobby

[claresloggett]

Ah sorry, my feed had not updated with the Gitter link. I see it now!