Automation & Systematization sprint in Berlin in late April

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 12:26 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello folks!
>
> I'd like to gauge interest in an in-person sprint supporting the
> Automation & Systematization goal. Right now we are targeting Berlin on
> April 19th - April 24th. KDE e.V. has budget available to help with
> travel and lodging costs.
>
> This will be a triple-threat sprint, with the Accessibility and
> Sustainability sprints co-located. People interested in multiple topics
> will be able to jump between them if they want.
>
> Topics for the Automation & Systematization sprint might include:
> - Writing tests
> - Fixing failing tests
> - Making tests mandatory to pass
> - Documenting how to write good tests
> - Updating outdated documentation
> - Transition documentation to code (e.g. making kdesrc-build or the new
> kde-builder tool do more itself, so we don't have to write so much about
> it in our documentation)
> - Make a push for enabling clang-format for more repos
> - Make a push to put release notes in AppStream metadata
> - Improve our AppStream CI job to require or recommend more things

- Make a CI job to enforce as much of the onboarding/new repo checklist
> as possible, and make enabling it be a part of the process
>
> These are just ideas; the folks who attend will be the ones who guide
> the agenda.
>

If this ends up happening, please do keep me in the loop on what you're
thinking of building so I can provide the necessary guidance to make it
easy to deploy things that are built :)


>
> Let me know if you're interested so I can get a sense of the level of
> attendance!
>
>
> Nate
>

Cheers,
Ben
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