• Sprints

EuroPython 2009 Sprints

When

• During Tutorial Days, Saturday and Sunday 28th/29th June, at the Conference Venue
• After the Conference, Friday 3rd July at the Conference Venue (from 9 am)
• After the Conference, Saturday 4rd July, at the CBSO Centre, Berkley Street - 7 minutes walk from the Conservatoire and 3 minutes from the Premier Inn.

How

Propose and organise your sprints here, on this page. If you wish to hold a sprint, give details here and get sprinters to sign up here. If a sprint is organised on this page, then the Conference organisers will provide the sprint facilities (but please don't leave it until the last minute, or we may not have space to hold your sprint).

Proposed Sprints

This page is for sprinters to organise their sprints. Ideas so far are:

• Django
• Python 3 Documentation
• Pypy - there will definitely be a Pypy sprint this year, Samuele says so
• Turbogears
• Pocoo
• Bazaar

• MoinMoin

• File system api
• Pyjamas

• PyJS + PyV8 / Python-Spidermonkey python accelerator.

• Grok
• Zope Toolkit
• Free-For-All Sprint
• Audio Sprint
• PyGTK

Please add suggestions for sprint topics to this list, and when the idea becomes reality, organise it here. For example:

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Python 3 Documentation

Purpose

To help improve the Py3k documentation.

Details

We'd like to hold this for two days after the conference. We need a leader who should be a Python 3 developer.

Sprinters

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Add your sprint here, please follow the above format

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File System API

Purpose

Tommi Virtanen was complaining at EuroPython 2008 that there are no good, complete and universal libraries/APIs for navigating file systems and "file system like" objects, and proposed that "someone" should do something with it. The ultimate purpose is to make a library that can be included in the standard distribution.

Details

We started working on a library for accessing different kind of file systems during the sprints in 2008. We still need to implement support for some more "file system like objects", like git and tarballs, argue about some design decisions, and (maybe most important) write up a good PEP for it.

There will probably not be any sprinting Saturday as people are leaving.

Anyone interested should join the #fssprint channel on freenode. Send an email to fs-subscribe@lists.eagain.net to join the mailing list.

To see the work done in 2008, check out http://eagain.net/gitweb/?p=fs.git ... or use the command git clone git://eagain.net/fs.git. If Tommi has installed your ssh key, use the command git clone git@eagain.net:fs.git

Sprinters

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PyPy Sprint

The PyPy projects plans to sprint both before and after the conference. Core PyPy developers will be present at both ends.

For a draft sprint announcement see:

http://codespeak.net/~pedronis/ep2009/announcement.txt

For a list of people with commit access participating see:

http://codespeak.net/~pedronis/ep2009/people.txt

Sprinters

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Turbogears Sprint

Led by Mark Ramm.

Purpose

Work on 2.1, and on building up more reusable web components (comments app, etc).

Sprinters

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Bazaar Sprint

Led by Jonathan Lange, running Friday 3rd July to Saturday 4th.

Purpose

To make Bazaar a joy to use!

Details

To be discussed on the Bazaar mailing list.

Sprinters

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Pocoo Sprint

Led by Armin Ronacher

What's planned? You can work on whatever Pocoo project you want. However if you want to help out but don't know what to work on here are some suggestions:

• [http://dev.pocoo.org/projects/zine Zine] - there are quite a lot of things to work on. There are some patches to be reviewed and applied and some new features to work on:

  • blogger importer
  • review and apply database migrations patches
  • work on documentation

• [http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ Sphinx]

  • implement pdf output via rst2pdf
  • implement GNOME devhelp output (it's basically HTML + control files)

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MoinMoin Wiki Engine Sprint

Purpose

• improve / fix moin/2.0* (huge internal changes / improvements!)
• test and fix moin/1.9 so we can release it soon
• we still search docbook / rst coders for moin!
• (add anything you like here)

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Pyjamas Sprint

Led by lkcl

The Pyjamas sprint will be organised by lkcl and lovelysystems.com.

Purpose

• To merge various branches such as dobe-introspection and llpamies gtk
• to brainstorm ideas for future direction and experiment with implementations
• to improve the Django Forms support which is under development
• to improve the core python language feature support
• to work with any web server framework developers who may be attending
• to look further at using pyjs + pyv8 as a python 2.6 accelerator.
• other

Details

contact us on http://groups.google.com/group/pyjamas-dev. There's an introspection branch to merge, and also Luis Pamirez's "gtk port to pyjamas" branch - see http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/wiki/GsocLlpamies for details.

Sprinters

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Grok

Purpose

Probably all sorts of things to help with a final 1.0 release.

Details

If you want to help and don't have zope svn commit access yet, could you try and obtain that before the sprint?

Sprinters

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Cool dev-tools sprint

Purpose

improve and work on cool (existing or new) development tools. integrate.

Details

work on integrating testing, issue tracking, development, probably by hacking on PIDA tools, py.test plugins and creating new tools. See http://tetamap.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/code-centered-issue-tracking/ for some motivation regarding "code-centered issue tracking".

Sprinters

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Zope Toolkit sprint

Purpose

Solve outstanding organisational issues, improve dependencies and other major issues.

Details

• Review steering group tasks
• Bug tracking / Use of launchpad
• Improve dependencies within ZTK packages

Sprinters

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Free-For-All

Purpose

You've just learnt some cool stuff, or want to try out something from a talk your heard. The time to try it out is now! Hopefully others will be available for help and suggestions. This is a learning experience, as well as a chance to work on miscellaneous projects.

Details

• Any project is welcome

Sprinters

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Audio Sprint

Purpose

Edit and publish as many talks recorded during the conference. Writing of any python tools that would help this process is also encouraged.

Details

• Audacity or similar required
• No experience nessessary.

Sprinters

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Django

Purpose

• Work on Django 1.1, if not yet released.
• other.

• SprintsDjango

Sprinters