If you’re near Antwerp this Tuesday (13th Nov 2012), join us at the Hackergarten day (free entrance) at Devoxx between 9:30am – 6:30pm. We ‘ll be hacking Drools Planner and many other open source projects (hibernate, arquillian, …).
Bring your laptop and sit shoulder-to-shoulder with other open source developers. We’ll guide you in creating pull requests and proof of concepts.
If you’re interested in hacking Planner, but don’t know what to do yet, here’s a list of suggestions:
- Create a new build-in ScoreDefinition (1-2 hours)
- Improve the benchmarker report (1 hour per improvement)
- Create an example for Portfolio optimization (full day)
Unlike most of Devoxx, the entrance is free. Hackergarten will take place in the two extra rooms (Area 1 & 2, each approx. 50m2) on the exhibition floor of Devoxx (not in the BOF rooms). So if you want to get your hands dirty, join us (except of course between 5:25 and 5:55 when you should come to my Devoxx presentation on Maven Dependency Puzzlers :).
Preparation
There’s a good network, but the Devoxx crowd never fails to slow it down. So avoid waiting for your downloads to finish and set up your environment at home:
Set up Git and clone drools-planner from GitHub (or alternatively, download the zipball):
$ git clone https://github.com/droolsjbpm/drools-planner.git
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Then do a Maven 3 build:
$ cd drools-planner
$ mvn -DskipTests clean install
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Try running the examples directly from the command line:
$ cd drools-planner-examples
$ mvn exec:exec
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Next, open the drools-planner/pom.xml file with your favorite IDE (IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans).
