The hackathon takes place close to the tutorials from Wednesday 11:30 until the end of the workshop. Feel free to move between tutorials and hackathon.
Some participants will be experienced contributors. Others are beginners for whom the hackathon can serve as an introduction to code development in ASE. Both groups are encouraged to participate in the hackathon. You can work on your favourite feature if you have one, but we will also define completely new tasks suitable for beginners who need not know anything in advance. We particularly value work on tests, code refactoring (cleaning up), or documentation, rather than new features as such.
Before and during the hackathon we will have meetings to discuss and define implementation tasks. This will be done on the ASE issue tracker. Tasks will be small and possible to accomplish in a limited amount of time.
Make sure you have a Gitlab account, clone ASE, and install as
editable using e.g. pip install --editable <ase directory>.
You will need to install pytest and pytest-mock
(pip install pytest pytest-mock) to run the tests.
Participants are encouraged to work in pairs (pair programming). Changes are supposed to be integrated via merge requests which are then reviewed before being merged. Participants with previous experience are encouraged to pair with beginners and work as tutors.