Author: Matti Picus <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r5946:87555f3a7bb9 Date: 2019-02-10 16:35 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/87555f3a7bb9/
Log: tweaks diff --git a/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst b/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst --- a/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst +++ b/blog/draft/2019-02-sprint.rst @@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ Hello everyone! -We are happy to report a successful and well attended sprint that is wrapping up -in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the last week we had eighteen people sprinting +We are happy to report a successful and well attended PyPy sprint +in Düsseldorf, Germany. From Feb 4 to Feb 13 we had eighteen people sprinting at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf on various topics. A big -chunk of the sprint was dedicated to various discussions, since we did not -manage to gather the core developers in one room in quite a while. +chunk of the sprint was dedicated to various discussions, since we have not +managed to gather the core developers in one room for quite a while. Discussion topics included: -* Funding and general sustainability of open source. +* Funding and general sustainability of open source, and PyPy in particular. * Catching up with CPython 3.7/3.8 – we are planning to release 3.6 some time in the next few months and we will continue working on 3.7/3.8. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Some highlights of the coding tasks worked on: * Aarch64 (ARM64) JIT backend work has been started, we are able to run the first - test! Tobias Oberstein from Crossbar GmbH and Rodolph Perfetta from ARM joined the + test! Tobias Oberstein from `Crossbar GmbH`_ and Rodolph Perfetta from ARM joined the sprint to help kickstart the project. * The long running math-improvements branch that was started by Stian Andreassen got merged @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ and nearly finished by Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick. The branch got merged and gives some modest speedups across the board. -* Andrew Lawrence worked on MSI installer for PyPy on windows. +* Andrew Lawrence worked on a MSI installer for PyPy on windows. * Łukasz worked on improving failing tests on the PyPy 3.6 branch. He knows very obscure details of CPython (e.g. how pickling works), hence we managed to progress very quickly. @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ * The Utf8 branch, which changes the internal representation of unicode might be finally merged at some point very soon. We discussed and improved upon the last few - blockers. It gives significant speedups in a lot of cases handling strings. + blockers. It gives significant speedups in many cases of string handling. -* Zlib was missing couple methods, which were added by Ronan Lamy and Julian Berman. +* Zlib was missing a couple of methods, which were added by Ronan Lamy and Julian Berman. * Manuel Jacob fixed RevDB failures. @@ -67,3 +67,4 @@ Maciej Fijałkowski, Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick and the whole PyPy team. .. _`heptapod`: https://heptapod.net +.. _`Crossbar GmbH`: https://crossbar.io/ _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
