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1. GObject-introspection Hackfest

Location: Berlin, Germany - 3 days during the BOFs at the Desktop Summit and 3 Days at the Openismus office

Date: Wednesday, August 10th - Monday August 15th

Primary contact: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.co.uk>

Secondary contact: John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>

1.1. Relevant GNOME team

Documentation team, introspection and bindings hackers, ...

1.2. Description

GObject-introspection is a fundamental piece of the GNOME developer story and needs some more energy behind it.

1.3. Agenda, goals

• Generate API documentation from the .gir files
• Store default values for arguments
• Document the .gir format for binding developers
• More type information is needed to fully support binding generation for languages such as C#
• ...

1.4. Measuring your success

We expect to tackle some important issues that have been open for too long and also get one or more existing contributors to further familiarize with the internals.

1.5. Attendants

• Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.co.uk> - One of the PyGObject maintainers, has contributed to gobject-introspection as part of his work on introspection-enabling PyGObject, originally for the Sugar project.

• John (J5) Palmieri <johnp AT redhat.com> - Another PyGObject maintainer

• Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 AT gmail.com> - An occasional contributor to PyGObject who is interested in working on documentation generation.

• Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> - GNOME developer

• Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org> - "That documentation hacker dude"

• Piotr Pokora <piotras AT nemein.com> - Main developer of Midgard Content Repository with gobject introspection support

• Torsten Schönfeld <kaffeetisch@gmx.de> - Maintainer of the Perl bindings, interested in completing the Perl bindings and in documentation generation

• Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> - Interested in documentation generation and porting GNOME pygtk2 stuff to PyGI/GTK3

• Guillaume Emont <guijemont@igalia.com> - Interested in things that would make Grilo better. Enjoys python. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/grilo-list/2011-June/msg00017.html

• Richard Dale <richard.j.dale@gmail.com> - Working on a Qt G-I based binding: https://launchpad.net/smoke-gobject Interested in language independent docs

• Arno Rehn <arno@arnorehn.de> - Working on KDE bindings

• Ivan Frade <ivan.frade@nokia.com> - GNOME developer (Tracker), user of GI in python. Trying to help in some coding tasks.

• Johan Dahlin <johan@gnome.org> - GNOME developer, doc gen, win32 port, pygtk compat

• Simon Schampijer <simon AT laptop.org> - Sugar Developer

1.6. Costs

Total: ~3463ドル USD

The board has offered a total of 5742ドル USD, an extra 1291ドル USD from the initial estimation with the aim of sponsoring the attendance to the Desktop Summit on the days previous to the hackfest.

1.7. Current sponsors

Sponsor of one of the venues: Openismus GmbH

Sponsor of one social event: Collabora Ltd.

Sponsor of another social event: Nemein Oy

1.8. How to get there

• From 10th to 12th, the hackfest will happen at the Desktop Summit: https://www.desktopsummit.org/venue

• From 13th to 15th, the hackfest will happen at the Openismus office: http://www.openismus.com/about

1.9. Accommodation and food

• The hotel is roughly between the two venues, even within walking distance for some:

Hotel Transit Loft Immanuelkirchstraße 14 a 10405 Berlin-Prenzl.Berg

Phone: +49 (0)30 / 484 937 73 Fax: +49 (0)30 / 440 510 74

Email: loft@hotel-transit.de

http://www.transit-loft.de/

Mention that you are sponsored by the GNOME Foundation at reception.

1.10. Previous discussions, organization threads, drafts, relevant links, etc

• http://www.j5live.com/2011/05/18/gobject-introspection-hackfest-in-berlin/

• http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2011/04/gobject-introspection-hackfest.html

• Sanddorn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae_rhamnoides