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s2k15: warming up

Contributed by phessler on from the that's-not-a-diff-this-is-a-diff dept.

Earlier this week, the s2k15 hackathon started down here in Brisbane Australia.

21 developers, all working on various projects, with several already hitting the tree.

Right now the biggest highlight is the iwm(4) driver, for new Intel 7260 wireless chips. This is found in newer Thinkpads, including your trusty editor's x240. Most of the work was done before the hackathon, but it was committed early, so we could continue working in the tree and make further improvements. The driver will show up in snapshots from Feb 8 or later.

Stay tuned for future improvements, and announcements from the s2k15 hackathon!

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  1. By journeysquid (Tor) on http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

    Does having a hackathon in the beta time period slow down work that would otherwise be potentially committed? I've seen a few things on the lists recently that were basically ok-but-wait-until-after-release.

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    1. By phessler (phessler) on http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

      > Does having a hackathon in the beta time period slow down work that would otherwise be potentially committed? I've seen a few things on the lists recently that were basically ok-but-wait-until-after-release.

      Some of the projects are worked on, then saved for after release. The testing and verification is done now, and people will beat up on them and do long-range testing.

      This also allows for wider testing, once we are ready for people to use it.

    2. By henning (130.102.96.33) on

      > Does having a hackathon in the beta time period slow down work that would otherwise be potentially committed?

      In one word: yes.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (84.206.118.252) on

        > > Does having a hackathon in the beta time period slow down work that would otherwise be potentially committed?
        >
        > In one word: yes.


        There is a chance to support RFC6204 (forwarding and autoconf with ivp6) in 5.7?

        thx
        csszep

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (2601:6:5182:4595:cb2:d887:aed7:ce20) on

          > > > Does having a hackathon in the beta time period slow down work that would otherwise be potentially committed?
          > >
          > > In one word: yes.
          >
          >
          > There is a chance to support RFC6204 (forwarding and autoconf with ivp6) in 5.7?
          >
          > thx
          > csszep
          >

          +1.

          I'd step up and help with the coding, but I've taken a peek at the net sources, and it is beyond my ken.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (93.38.44.8) on

    Probably this is not the right place to ask but... what happened to the current changelog (http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html)? It used to be updated more frequently in the past...

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    1. By Ingo Schwarze (schwarze) schwarze@ on mdocml.bsd.lv

      > Probably this is not the right place to ask

      Indeed, not much related to this hackathon...

      > but... what happened to the current changelog
      > (http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html)?
      > It used to be updated more frequently in the past...

      For quite some time, Brett Mahar (brett@) did a great job
      keeping that up to date. Recently, he was forced to retire
      from the task because of other duties. Janne (jj@) is
      maintaining the page again, but in longer intervals.
      I think help would be welcome. If somebody is interested,
      just start regularly sending patches to Janne and me.
      Don't underestimate the work required - but then again,
      it's an interesting job and you can learn a lot about the
      system doing it, so it's certainly worth the effort.

      Ingo

  3. By Ian M (137.154.212.180) on

    So there's a hackathon in the state next to mine. You all must not be drinking enough beer, as I can't hear the activity...................

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