Hi Pierre-Yves,
I quite agree that it makes sense to separate topics that are mostly
interesting to active developers from reaching out to users. Other than
that, I think that the size of the sprint should be dependent primarily
on how many people want to and are able to come, and the availability of
suitable gathering places. Of course, more people are likely to attend
if there is more time to plan ahead.
I can offer an office in which 10 people fit comfortably in one room and
more space if needed. It is located in Leipzig, Germany and is available
short-term or long-term for up to about one week.
-Manuel
On 15/05/2025 12.22, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
Hello everyone,
It has been a while since we gathered for a Mercurial sprint.
I talked with a various people about organizing a sprint this year and
two different category of goals emerged. First there a lot of low level
"project" topics that would benefit from in-person meeting to be
discussed and resolved (e.g. packaging, developer tooling,
infrastructure, etc) and second there is a will to create an opportunity
to reach out to a wider array of users and people satellite to the
project to discuss the current state of the tool and the project.
Since is has been so long we have done a sprint, it seems hard to
prevent the first category of boring "project" related discussion to
interfere with the availability needed to welcome people coming for the
second category. In addition, larger sprints with more people requires
more heads up and are harder to setup. Starting small seem simpler.
So our proposal is to start with one or two smaller sprints, focusing on
the lower level project needs (packaging, developer tooling, etc) with
whoever is available. Then we work on a larger sprint setup reaching out
to more people to discuss higher level and longer terms topics.
Regarding the time frame, we think we have a first windows in July 2025,
and second window in October-November 2025, and then another one in
February-April 2026.
So I think we should try to setup a first "mini" sprint in July (two
months from now) somewhere in Europe as most currently active people are
in Europe. I started pilling up possible topic in a wiki page a few
month back : https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/2025Sprint
What do you think ?
In addition, if you have a location that could host such sprint please
raise your hand and tell us about the date it would be feasible.
Cheers
--
Pierre-Yves David
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