Mozilla Global Sprint 2018

https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/milestone/1

214 42 8 years ago

Given that this is all driven by volunteer work, wouldn't it have made more sense to schedule the "sprint" on a weekend?

butz2• 8 years ago

I bet no one will stop you to continue contributing on a weekend and later.

sli• 8 years ago

Due by May 11, 2018

If you want to participate in this sprint, this coming weekend will be too late.

fergie• 8 years ago

Can "sprints" be reconciled with volunteering? The joy of open source is that you can work on what you want, when you want. The moment that somebody tells you what to do and when to do it, it begins to look at bit like a job.

blackbrokkoli• 8 years ago

It's not like you get punished for not participating. It's just a motivation to actually do something and get some sense of community

kalev• 8 years ago

Wow, that’s actually a pretty cool initiative. An extra push to start giving back to the community. I’ll find myself a project and start contributing!

pnut• 8 years ago

Finally, an opportunity to engage in uncompensated labour!

ajkjk• 8 years ago

Well, that's the most hostile possible interpretation.

dsego• 8 years ago

Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek?

jvehent• 8 years ago

Or you could say it's an opportunity to improve mission critical code that tons of high valuation companies use every day for free ;)

forapurpose• 8 years ago

You've already been compensated with massive amounts of free, open source technology that you use every day, probably every time you interact with your computer. Now you have an opportunity to do a little work for it.

EDIT: harlanji's response, below, is the much better one IMHO. I let the parent frame it as a question of compensation. As harlanji points out, that was the wrong question.

calvertdw• 8 years ago

Open source software is mostly written under well funded projects. Users shouldn't feel like they "owe".

kjeetgill• 8 years ago

When I first used firefox I was just some kid in high school. Me and many of my peers used firefox for years free of charge. We shared it with out parents and grandparents.

I would consider this as contribution to this wider community beyond just Mozilla's bottom line.

sho_hn• 8 years ago

Most people in free software don't regard compensation as their primary motivator to work. Personally, I'd hate to spend so many hours of a finite lifetime on things I don't care about beyond a paycheck. As soon as you have enough money for your purposes, it's incredibly freeing to do things that satisfy your actual motivations.

sudouser2• 8 years ago

looks nice but would greatly improve chances if they had labels of what kind of help is needed

sudouser2• 8 years ago

answering myself, went and read about 20 pages, they really need labels

splitbrain• 8 years ago

what exactly is Mozilla doing except having created a github issue tracker?

robterthaddeus2• 8 years ago

Here's background on the larger mission: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/05/07/mozillas-48-hour-ha...

a_imho• 8 years ago

Unless I'm missing something, the answer from the link is ~nothing and/or taking credit?

gregknicholson• 8 years ago

Is it possible to participate without registering an account with GitHub Inc?

jbob2000• 8 years ago

Mozilla needs to cut down on the noise on the sprint's issue board, take a look: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=label%3Amozsprint&state=open...

There's so much baloney like this:

- How can we solve X problem? Where X is a global problem that potentially has thousands of stakeholders and use cases, requiring millions of dollars in time and effort.

- Can you fill out this survey?

- What flavour of ice cream do you like?

- Start your own hackathon/organize your own event!

- When is someone considered a senior Ruby developer?

- What have you done with your skills?

- Write us instructions on how to use X tool. Where X is an industry standard tool that has thousands of hits on google about how to use it.

When did the open source community get this watered down?

robterthaddeus2• 8 years ago

Part of Mozilla’s aim with the Sprint is to help people/projects outside of engineering apply “open” principles -- to educational resources, to civic projects, etc. That’s why you see some light-weight, non-technical issues. But there are plenty of more typical coding projects to work on! You can try searching by project or language to find those.

trzmiel4• 8 years ago

Actually, they have. If you follow the link on OP, you'll see 93 selected issues, not the 941 noisy ones you linked.

They're actually putting some effort into this as well. Not just creating a place for a ton of random junk, pat on the back, "good luck, go figure".

EDIT: Your filter is just "label:mozsprint" across all of GitHub. That's pretty likely to include noise that Mozilla cannot do anything about.

dopeboy• 8 years ago

Anyone in SF or East Bay organizing together for this? I see a pin on the map in SF but can't tell how legit that gathering is. Is there anything happening at the Mozilla office?

harlanji2• 8 years ago

I’ve set myself to drive down to Mozilla from SF and work on this:

https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues/307

Lots of Meetups happen at the pinned library in SF so it’s likely legit.

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reitanqild• 8 years ago

This and your tinydatacenter page seems great. Also I like the styling of that page :-)

ShroudedNight3• 8 years ago

Unless I managed to completely miss something, I see no mention of the copyright issues that likely ensare a good percentage of those who would otherwise be their prime audience.

This sounds interesting to me, but having already waded through the issues once on my own, without some serious help resolving the legal aspect of this, the cost of entry is too high for impulse-based participation.

giancarlostoro4• 8 years ago

I'm so confused by what you're saying, do you not understand how software licensing works in regards to copyright? I thought by now its been pretty well understood by the community. The exception being obscurely licensed software.

ShroudedNight3• 8 years ago

The problem with copyright is that many of us are subject to broad agreements assigning the ownership of all our programming output to our employers. If we were to contribute to these projects without a clear legal framework in place authorizing us to do so, we open up all parties involved to significant legal risk.

If Mozilla had some kind of pre-packaged kit that we could take to our employers for approval, and that once filled out, had a clear scope of authorization, it would go a long way to giving me the courage to try walking the path to contributing again.

TheAceOfHearts• 8 years ago

An accompanying explanation would've been nice. For future visitors [0]:

Mozilla’s Global Sprint, a distributed work/collaboration sprint on open projects from around the world!
Every issue in this repository represents a project seeking contribution.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues/299

vardump2• 8 years ago

One really cool project would be to make Firefox's webassembly compiler work standalone as a dynamic library. Even baseline compiler would be useful.

ShroudedNight3• 8 years ago

Do you mean the JIT compiler? If so, there has been some work fusing Eclipse OMR's JITBuilder to wabt here: https://github.com/wasmjit-omr/wasmjit-omr

It's probably significantly more primordial than what you want, but mentioning it on the chance it's useful.

vardump2• 8 years ago

A library with small binary size that is easy to integrate.

Supporting at least x86(-64) and ARMv7 (default + thumb2, 64-bit ARMv8 would be a big plus).

Something that would enable multi-platform plugins.

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