Hacksession April 2024

[rwood-97]

Organisation checklist:

• Create a new issue with the date of the hack session and copy this checklist. This issue will document the full session. Assing issue to the person organising that month.
• Book Turing meeting room.
• Advertise the session (use the email template below) by sending a calendar invite to the following channels:
  • REG slack channels
  • Enrichment student's Slack channels.
  • #open-source-hacksessions
  • Any other channel of interest.
• Send reminders to Slack channels the week of the event.
• Run the event
• Collect contributions to the session in the issue relevant to the session.
• Update the main page with new contributions https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/research-engineering-group/wiki/Open-source-hacksessions

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Template email/slackchannel:

Hello [placeholder],

REG runs monthly sessions where we come together and contribute to upstream > open-source repositories. The idea is to fence off time dedicated to contributing > upstream and to do it together for joy and sociality. We hope to give back to >many of the tools we use and learn about new packages by helping them out. >Everyone is welcome to come and work on something they want to contribute to >or join an effort someone else has already started.

The next session is happening on [placeholder date] and you are all invited. We >start at 2 pm [placeholder room] and hybrid. Come by and contribute to your >favourite open-source project or team up with someone else! We'll discuss what >everyone is working on in #open-source-hacksessions.

You can see the outcome of previous hack sessions in here.

We will be there all Friday afternoon, join us for some or all of it.

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[rwood-97]

Outputs:

• @mhauru worked on Fix some typos and broken links in the docs chaoss/augur#2773 and opened some tickets on the augur repo
• @rwood-97 started work on [Feature Request]: Add fail_on_http_error boolean to Github readers run-llama/llama_index#12649 (comment)
• @Iain-S opened safety auth --help throws error pyupio/safety#515
• @yongrenjie worked on [new release] wcwidth (1.0.0) ocaml/opam-repository#25703
• @phinate worked on Various things! python-project-template#27