Hi pypy-dev! Welcome to a slightly unconventional sprint report (only fair for this slightly unconventional sprint): The first three days of the Trillke-sprint were fully dedicated to EU-reporting, considering that it may be slightly more fun to write them knowing that everybody else is doing the same, and that's what this report is about.
The coding sprint report will follow, once the writers will have managed to travel home and recover a bit. Each of the 14 work packages that PyPy promised to do to the EU will conclude with at least one report due in the next month, and the target of the report sprint was to wrap up most of them and even deliver some to the EU already, also to have some spare time for coding works in March. In addition, there were the so-called 'review recommendations' - some first project period feedback by the Commission, requesting that the reports should meet scientific standards, include references and in general be useful for other than filling the EU's archives purposes. So, everybody was busy collecting papers, writing footnotes and consider overall sense-making strategies of the EU-reports, many of the results can be found here: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/index-report.html A big effort went into the D12 report (prototypes, backends) taken care of by Samuele, Arre, Anto, Guido, Armin and overall coordinated by Holger, who also got Niko on the boat for remotely writing a section on the JVM backend. And then there were D02.1, D14.2, D01.2-4, D13.1, D03.1, D09.1 not to speak of the periodic/final EU management related reports and (sigh) the D06.1 report, being worked on by Holger, Anto, Arre, Stephan, Samuele, Lene, Carl Friedrich, Bea, Armin, Niko, Guido, and even the jet-lagged Michael and Richard helped with reviews and consultancy. Carl Friedrich, the very patient report release manager, took care for overall finalization and pdf-ing of reports apart from driving and starting the D06.1 report. Bea, Holger and Lene sat together dicussing ideas for overall activity reporting. On Wednesday, we finally managed to send out a pile of reports to the EU project officer, also presenting a commonly discussed table of planned report deliveries. And then the OLPC laptop came - introduced by Christian bringing it directly from Pycon to the PyPy group - which more or less stopped all report writing in exchange for people gathering around the machine and starting hacking. But luckily it was only Wednesday afternoon when it arrived and the belly- dancers were about to conquer the sprint room anyway :) (Actually, Armin continued working with the OLPC on the breakday and managed to port the Bub-n-Bros client to it, getting one step closer to the PyPy3000 goal of running Bub-n-Bros on every imaginable platform.) Cheers, Lene _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
