This should have a Hackathon starter kit of sorts:

• Tips on how to organize a hackathon
• Sample schedules
• Ideas for people to work on curated by the team members
• How to get sponsors and generate interest
• Other things?

There should be a generator to create a sample site or info to paste to things like meetup

What?

Yeoman uses a conflicter system to protect a user's files from unwanted modification.

Every time Yeoman write to a file inside the destination root, the conflict system kicks in an compare the old file with the new file. If there's line deleted, it will prompt the user and ask for resolution (overwrite, skip, display diff, overwrite this one and all next).

This is a very important part of our system because it secure the user and alert him when there's a risk a generator break something.

Issue

The conflicter system is pretty vital to Yeoman, but it is getting old and rusty. In short, it could be made way better!

Feature

The conflicter should be smarter. Right now each time a line is changed, it'll alert the user. For example, minor line changes (syntax) shouldn't display an alert - for example:

 {
   "files": [
-    "bar"
+    "bar",
+    "foo"
   ]
 }

Next on, the conflicter can throw when handling folders. This would be useful to let a user know a generator is going to overwrite a complete directory via a bulk task.

The system also need a good refactoring to keep clean code. And it would be awesome to be able to extract the conflicter in a standalone npm module that could be reused by other projects.

Any else you feel is missing!

Prior art

Find current module here: https://github.com/yeoman/generator/blob/master/lib/util/conflicter.js

Related issues

• Directory bug: yeoman/generator#426
• Extracting in another module issue: yeoman/generator#134 (epic points for closing an issue from 2012!)

What?

Almost all of our main generators create styling configuration for the user. By styling configuration, I mean CSS files (with or without preprocessor), frameworks and build system.

Now that we added composability feature, it is time to create a single generator that anyone can reuse when creating a web application generator.

Features

Pick any features you want and have time working on. Really go as you feel and we can assure you the community will be supportive and help define future features based on its needs.

• Preprocessor support (SCSS, LESS, Stylus, etc?)
• Framework support (fetch and setup frameworks like Bootstrap, Inuit.css)
• CSS linting
• Build system (compile preprocessor, minify file, etc for each flavor)
• Provide ways to define the folder where to write files

This generator should be very focused and not generate any unnecessary files (e.g. no .editorconfig, etc)

Prior art

You can check any official generators (like generator-webapp) for inspiration on the current config for styling.

Make sure you've read the composability documentation.

This should have a meetup guideline:

• Tips on how to organize a meetup
• directory of global meetups
• How to get sponsors and generate interest
• Other things?

First Yeoman hackathon ever will be hold in Toronto from October 17th to the 19th 2014. (Yeah, that's this weekend)

Event page: http://www.yeoman.to/events/yeoman-tooling-hackathon/
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Yeoman-User-Group/events/190852932/

Comments below to let everyone know what you'll be working on!

What?

Each time we publish a new tag on a core project, we should launch a Travis-CI process to release a new version of the API documentation.

Maybe relevant documentation

• How they made it with TodoMVC tastejs/todomvc#972
• Some tutorial http://rmcgibbo.org/posts/deploying-with-travis-ci-and-s3/

Related issues

• yeoman/generator#673
• yeoman/environment#9

Stretch goal

Release yeoman.io each time there's a change. See yeoman/yeoman.io#344

What?

Yeoman provide a programmatic API and an interface abstraction that allow users to integrate it inside graphical user interfaces: standalone apps, IDE, editors, web app, etc etc

Unfortunately, we don't have any working right now. Want to dig into this not so well known API? Then it's probably a good occasion!

Features?

Whatever you want really!

Helping document this feature along the way would also be very useful.

Prior art

@zenorocha got a basic prototype using node-webkit (not sure about the status)

What you really need to know:

1. The Yeoman Environment is orchestrating running generators and discovery.
2. Adapters are in charge of rendering content. Yeoman provide a terminal adapter by default, but it could be replace by an adapter creating HTML or to an IDE interface.

What?

Yeoman generates a lot of file for the user. A big issue currently is that all files are copied as is and ain't modified to match the user/team coding style guide.

It would be greatly appreciated from Yeoman user if they were able to define styling constraint in the .editorconfig file and simply see the style applied to new files.

Feature

• Parsing .editorconfig files to extract config - respecting nested rules, root rules, etc.
• Normalizing multiple file type whitespaces
• This could be easily be made in a standalone module (Yay!)
• [extra] beautifying code based on common coding styleguide

Prior art

• Parsing editorconfig https://www.npmjs.org/package/editorconfig
• The styling should be applied inside a file-util (Yeoman file system) write filter https://github.com/SBoudrias/file-utils#write-filters
• generator-bbb have a very basic implementation of the functionality: https://github.com/backbone-boilerplate/generator-bbb/blob/master/lib/generators/base/bbb-generator.js#L26-L32
• Detect-Indent - possible fallback when no .editorconfig is present

Notice

We're strongly considering changing our file-system. If this happens, write filter would simply be gulp plugins. So if someone want to work on this one, it might make sense to investigate this avenue rather than fixing our currently broken file system.

What's this about?

Ever wished to take a satellite picture each time your build succeed?

Wait no more, now is the perfect time to work on that Grunt plugin you've always wished to write.

Related links

• Documentation: http://gruntjs.com/creating-tasks

What's this about?

Ever wish you could just use yo to generate a new project using this new framework no one has yet heard about?

Best time ever! Warm up those thumbs and start typing.

Related links

• Documentation: http://yeoman.io/authoring/
• Generator generator: https://github.com/yeoman/generator-generator