Thanks for circulating the report, very interesting! It gives some sense of what happens on a sprint, which I've always wondered. I'd like to participate on one in future.
Well done all, and best regards, Andreas On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:39:23 +1000 Jonathan Lange <j...@canonical.com> wrote: > I just sent this sprint report to the Bazaar mailing list. Forwarded > here for your reading pleasure. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jonathan Lange <j...@mumak.net> > Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM > Subject: Birmingham sprint report > To: Bazaar <baz...@lists.canonical.com> > > > The first ever Bazaar sprint in the first ever Birmingham is well and truly > over. Here's the low-down. > > Attendees: > Jonathan Lange (jml) > Wouter van Heyst (LarstiQ) > Andy Kilner (gnublade) > Russel Winder (russel) > Stephen Emslie (semslie) > Szilveszter Farkas (phanatic) > > The sprint went ran on the Friday and Saturday after EuroPython 2009. > > As you might remember, the goal of the sprint was to work on cool UI stuff: > bling, papercuts, little annoying fixes, simple obvious missing features etc. > > We stuck pretty well to this goal. Here's roughly what got done: > > * Fixed #217031, "bzr launchpad-login -v MYNAME" gives no feedback (jml) > > * Fixed a tilde -> %7E URL translation glitch (gnublade) > > * Released 1.16.1 for OS X & documented how to do it. (szi) > > * Fixed up supported Python version info in bzr (russel) > > * Provided a patch for bug #213185, tag conflicts do not change exit code. > (gnublade) > > * Fixed ugly exception being raised on network error in bug #247958 (jml) > > * Submitted patch for #84659, it's been rejected but the bug has moved > forward. (jml) > > * Updated subvertpy ppa. (LarstiQ) > > > And here are some things that we need your help with, still: > > * Submitted RFC patch for LP API support. Still waiting on replies. (jml) > > * Submitted RFC patch for fixing the URL that remote smart servers suggest > for break-lock. The patch has had replies, but is still waiting on > _something_ -- a firm "yes" perhaps? (LarstiQ) > > * Worked on bug #308472, getting 'info' to show the server version. Not sure > what state the bug is in now, I'm pretty sure Stephen sent a patch. > (gnublade, semslie) > > * I have "#183089 (gnublade)" but I have no idea what that means. > > Apologies if I've missed anyone or anything. Please correct me if I have! > > I also cheated a little and submitted a patch to Launchpad which will make the > public API way more useful for Bazaar. > > Some other things: > > * It was particularly exciting for me to see Andy & Stephen dig into the > details of Bazaar and get all the way to submitting patches. > > * It would have been nice to have an easier way of finding easy bugs to fix. > I sent an email to list about it, and I think it's been resolved (when > tagging with 'easy', always explain how to fix the bug). > > * I was a little surprised to notice that people are running Bazaar 1.13 by > default, since that's the version of Bazaar that ships with Jaunty. > > * At the EuroPython conference, Geoff Bache asked me about a patch of his > that has been languishing without review. I couldn't find this patch on > Launchpad or BundleBuggy, but then stumbled across bug 183831. There are > 38 bugs that have patches[1]. > > * We had quite a few interruptions from people at other sprints who were > interested in Bazaar or Launchpad. > > * I regularly mispronounced Wouter's name as "Jelmer". I'm an idiot. > > * The coffee was terrible and the beer was very tasty. > > > I had a lot of fun. Thanks to the attendees and to the EuroPython organizers. > > jml > > [1] > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs?field.has_patch.used=&field.has_patch=on > _______________________________________________ > EuroPython mailing list > EuroPython@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython ----- www.Soundience.com -- Making sense of complexity _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
