Hackathon

The first day there was the opportunity to work together with 50 other programmers, and a bunch of HQ members, to eliminate as much bugs in Umbraco as possible. By using short, one hour sprints the goal was to take care of as many smaller bugs, that did not require as much deep knowledge of the Umbraco core, as possible. For us, this was the first time we delved this deeply into the heart of Umbraco. In the end, it was pretty amazing how easy and effortless it was. We decided to work together with a single laptop (partly because mine decided to chose this moment to pass on to greener pastures) and couldn't be happier about this choice. Working together this closely helps you focus on the problem at hand. Decisions are quickly discussed and made and, since it's a decision made after reaching consensus, the found solutions tend to be cleaner and better.

Timo and I worked on issues U4-3774 / U4-4752, resulting in us moving the "Change password" option to the left column. It is now accessible by clicking the gravatar image rather than just on the content dashboard. We didn't touch the actual functionality behind the form. The one hour sprints were simply too short to attempt this. Perhaps at a later time there will be a moment to address this (U4-7009 is a good example).