[EuroPython] Bazaar sprint report (was Fwd: Birmingham sprint report)

[Andreas Kaempf]

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 <jml at 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 <jml at mumak.net>
> Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:44 PM
> Subject: Birmingham sprint report
> To: Bazaar <bazaar at 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
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