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Leader: Noah Kantrowitz (noah@coderanger.net)

Attendees:

Noah Kantrowitz
Vasja Volin (vasja at superprofundo dot com)
Daniel Gordon
Thomas Ballinger
Tom Brander
Jay Kelkar
Jairo Lopez
Guilherme Salgado (@gsalgado)
Jason Kirtland
Andrei Mirestean(@andrei1089)
Craig Dennis (@7footmoustache)
Dan Colish (@dcolish)

Allura (SourceForge.net platform)

Allura is the open-source forge platform underlying the new SourceForge.net.

URL: Allura Project

Leader: Rick Copeland (rick@geek.net)

Attendees:

Rick Copeland
Dave Brondsema

Buildbot

Buildbot is an open-source distributed build and test framework. The introductory session will double as a "Buildbot Summit" for users and developers alike, where we will talk about the current and future states of Buildbot. The sprint itself will focus on increasing test coverage, fixing and closing 0.8.4 bugs and hopefully releasing 0.8.4. A few developers will be working on their own projects, as well, and any help will be appreciated!

URL: buildbot.net - Sprint page at http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/BuildbotSprint2011

Leader: Dustin J. Mitchell (dustin@v.igoro.us)

Attendees:

Dustin J. Mitchell

Topics:

If you know a lot about JavaScript, let's build some client-side smarts into the web interface
If you want some practice with Twisted and Deferreds, Buildbot uses them heavily - stop by
If you know a thing or two about Python on Windows, you can teach Buildbot to do a better job there
If you want practice writing unit tests, Buildbot's coverage is low so there are lots of opportunities
If you have a Buildbot project you are working on, let's hack on that!
If you have a way with words, the documentation is long, but lacks linguistic finesse in places. Maybe you can help fix that!
If you know about database portability and/or SQLAlchemy, you can probably help identify and fix some serious problems in Buildbot before we get stuck with them.
If you know more than the average bear about Unicode, Buildbot has some interesting encoding problems that need some creativity and wisdom applied.

(C)Python

Leader: Brett Cannon (brett@python.org)

The focus of this sprint will be to try to raise CPython's test coverage. It will also test (if available) the new Mercurial repository along with Python-Dev In a Box.

URL: Python Developer's Guide

Attendees:

Brett Cannon
Brian Curtin
Jack Diederich
R. David Murray
Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis
Scott Wilson
Evan Dandrea (@evan_d)
Arkady Koplyarov

Distro Topics

Leader: TBD (perhaps Barry, Matthias, Tokio, Tarek?)

Working on issues related to operating system distributions, such as (but hopefully not limited to) Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. Possible questions include:

What do we want to work on for Python 3.3 that will make distros lives easier?
How can we accelerate the migration to Python 3 so that our distros can ship them as the "default" Python version?
(your question here)

Attendees:

Barry Warsaw

Distutils2

Leader: Tarek

Push Distutils2 into Python 3.3 trunk.

Attendees:

Tarek
Kelsey Hightower
Elson Rodriguez
Arc Riley
Michael Mulich
Walker Hale
Jason Coombs

Django

Leader: Alex Gaynor

URL: http://djangoproject.com/

Attendees:

Alex Gaynor
Jannis Leidel
David Gouldin
Jeremy Dunck
Chris Adams
Andrew Godwin
Honza Král
Michael Trier (@mtrier)
Denise Govindarajan
Brodie Rao (@brodie)
Jim Phares
Shimon Rura
Szilveszter Farkas (@szilveszter)
Adolfo Fitoria(@fitoria)
Evgeny Fadeev (@askbot7)
John Paulett (@johnpaulett)
Bruno Renié (@brutasse)
Ralph Lepore
Jonathan Calazan
Zachary Train

Django Packages / Python Packages

Leaders: Audrey Roy & Daniel Greenfeld

URL: http://djangopackages.com

Topics:

Bug fixes
Enhancements
launching Python Packages

Attendees:

Aaron Kavlie
Adam Saegebarth
Alex Robbins
Andrii Kurinny
Audrey Roy
Brian Ball
Bryan Weingarten
Chris Adams
Daniel Greenfeld
Eric Spunagle
Flaviu Simihaian
Gisle Aas (Repo Man)
Jacob Burch
James Pacileo
Jeff Schenck
Jim Allman
John M. Camara
Jonas Obrist
jrothenbuhler
Nate Aune
Nolan Brubaker
Preston Holmes
Stuart Powers
Szilveszter Farkas (Repo Man)
Tom Brander
Vasja Volin

Fabric

Leader: Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet ; jeff@bitprophet.org)

URL: http://docs.fabfile.org/1.0a/development.html

Topics:

Testing/bugfixing the (should be out by PyCon) 1.0 release
Merging/testing/documenting new features for the 1.1 release
Fleshing out the test suite

Attendees:

Jeff Forcier
Tomaz Muraus

Flask

Leader: Armin Ronacher

Room: Hanover E

URL: mitsuhiko/flask/wiki

Topics:

Refactoring modules
Reviewing and improving extensions and documentation
Flask-Principal

Attendees:

Armin Ronacher
Ron DuPlain
Matt Dawson
Michael Prichard
Aaron Kavlie
Sam Anderson
Dan Callahan

Gunicorn

Leader: Benoît Chesneau (@benoitc , benoitc@gmail.com)

URL: http://gunicorn-pycon2011.couch.it/

Topics

Raise unitests level
Pep 3333 support
Python 3 support
gunicorn-recipe deployement website

Attendees:

Benoît Chesneau
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Jython

Leader: Phil Jenvey (pjenvey@underboss.org)

URL: http://jython.org

Topics:

Jython 2.6
Performance
Maybe we'll take another whack at Twisted support

Attendees:

Phil Jenvey
Oti Humbel
Yuji Yamano
Josh Juneau (Remote)
Frank Wierzbicki (Remote)

Libcloud

Leader: Tomaz Muraus (tomaz@tomaz.me)

URL: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/devinfo.html

Topics:

Finishing off the Storage support
Refactoring existing modules
Porting it to Python 3K
Documentation enhancements
Improving the website (Currently, it's just a bunch of static HTML files which means it's hard to maintain it. We should port it to some kind of Python/Django based CMS).

Attendees:

Tomaz Muraus
Steve Gremban
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OpenHatch

Leader: Asheesh Laroia (asheesh at asheesh.org)

URL: https://openhatch.org/

About OpenHatch

OpenHatch is an open source community aiming to help newcomers find their way into free software projects. We work toward this goal through this website and in-person outreach events.

Topics:

If you want to do Django coding, we have a real web app that you can work on. We can mentor you in performance work like https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue310.
If you like network programming, we would love help migrating some web scraping code to be asynchronous.
If you want to do Javascript, I can mentor you with improving the http://openhatch.org/people/ map.
If you want to learn software testing, we have a simple ticket that needs a short test written, and then a short implementation: https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue324
If you want to do web design, we would love to hear feedback on changes to the website (and get them landed).
If you like teaching, you can help create more interactive training missions (like http://openhatch.org/missions/.

Attendees:

Asheesh Laroia
Joel Rivera (@cyraxjoe)
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Marrow / TurboMail / WebCore

Leader: Alice Bevan-McGregor (@GothAlice, alice+sprint@gothcandy.com)

URLs: Marrow, TurboMail, WebCore

Topics:

Working towards the next major version of TurboMail, now named Courriel.
- Code, documentation, pluggable add-ons for Courriel.
- End-goal of creating something worthy of inclusion in stdlib.
PEP 444 -- have a voice on alternate-reality WSGI and a contender for WSGI 2.
Work on the Marrow meta-framework of Python 2.6+ and 3.1+ tools.
- Let's continue to re-invent the disdykistriacontahedron!
If progress on Marrow is swift, begin porting WebCore to use the Marrow suite and build it to support Python 3.
Anything you'd like to discuss or hack on

Attendees:

Join us on #webcore IRC channel on Freenode. Those not able to attend physically are welcome to sprint remotely!

Mercurial

Leaders: Greg Ward, Brodie Rao (@brodie, brodie@bitheap.org)

URL: mercurial.selenic.com (developer info, contributing to Mercurial)

Topics:

Improving documentation (newbies welcome!)
Tackling bug reports (or working on bite-sized bugs)
Working on feature requests and wishes
Implementing remote-tracking branches/bookmarks
Anything you'd like to discuss or hack on

Attendees:

Brodie Rao
David Wolever (@wolever)
Greg Ward
Jennifer Leech
Jon Dugan (@jdugan)
Craig Leres

Please head on over to the #mercurial IRC channel on freenode if you plan on attending! You can sprint with us remotely on IRC as well if you won't be here during the sprint days.

Mython

Mython is an extensible variant of Python.

URL: http://mython.org/

Leader: Jon Riehl (jriehl@spaceship.com)

Topics:

Teaching and evangelism.
Documentation
Testing
CMython (using Python 3)
MyMy (via PyPy)

Attendees:

Jon Riehl

Open Government Sprint

Leader: James Turk (@jamesturk; jturk@sunlightfoundation.com)

URL: http://openstates.sunlightlabs.com/contributing/

Topics:

Open to any Open Gov't type project, but we'll mainly be working on the Open State Project)

Come by the "Opening Government with Python" poster during the poster session to learn more about how to get involved.

Attendees:

James Turk
Michael Stephens
Doug Morgan (@dmorganGT)

Pinax

Leader: Brian Rosner

URL: http://pinaxproject.com

Topics:

Working on Pinax 0.9 starter projects
New apps

Attendees:

James Tauber
Patrick Altman
Luke Hatcher
Chris Clarke
Nolan Brubaker (@palendae)
Wes Winham

pyBookBuilder

A web-based service for collaborative book editing. Made to facilitate the sharing learning resource creation effort between educators that collaborate. To do this, it uses a web interface to edit reStructuredText files, which are then put together into online HTML books using Sphinx.

Leader: Filip Sufitchi

URL: http://launchpad.net/pybookbuilder

Topics:

Main sprint objective: Convert pyBookBuilder from current web2py framework to the Pyramid framework.
Add built-in version control for pyBookBuilder books

Attendees:

Filip Sufitchi
Douglas Cerna
Jeffrey Elkner

PyKE

Python Knowledge Engine. Integrates Logic Programming into Python. Includes automatic Python program generation. Will be co-sprinting with the Naimath medical expert system.

Leader: Bruce Frederiksen

URL: http://pyke.sourceforge.net

Topics:

Multi-threading support (this has been asked for by those wanting to use Pyke with Django).
Be able to split a single rule base across multiple .krb files (to handle very large rule bases).
Figure out a way to get around the Python limit on nested structures which prevents more than 10-12 lines in a "when" clause.
Add keyword arguments to statements to make built-in statements more expressive (e.g., for database access).
Add encoding spec to .krb files.

Attendees:

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Pylons/Pyramid

Leader: Chris McDonough

URL: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/#contributing

Topics:

Potentially port WebOb to Py3K.
WebOb/Werkzeug collaboration.
Marketing: now that Pyramid 1.0 is done, how can we promote it?

Attendees:

Chris McDonough
Ben Bangert
Blaise Laflamme
Carlos de la Guardia
Reed O'Brien
Chris Rossi
Rick Harding
Mike Orr
Joe Dallago
Whit Morriss
Alex Conrad
Kai Groner
Casey Duncan
Chris Shenton
Tres Seaver

PyPy

Leader: Maciej Fijalkowski (fijall@gmail.com)

URL: PyPy, Speed center

Topics:

Running your stuff on PyPy

Running it fast

Attendees:

Maciej Fijalkowski
Armin Rigo
Laura Creighton
Jacob Hallén
Alex Gaynor
Tomaz Muraus
Bob Hancock
Greg Price
Brad Smith
Arkady Koplyarov
Andrey Tatarinov
Alex Perry

Read the Docs

Help hack on the documentation site that hosts some of your favorite projects.

http://readthedocs.org

Leader : Eric Holscher (@ericholscher)

Attendees

Eric Holscher

SQLAlchemy / Mako Templates / Beaker Caching

Projects run or largely maintained by Mike Bayer. We will try to get into the same room as Pylons/Pyramid.

Leader: Mike Bayer (mike_mp@zzzcomputing.com)

URLs: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/

http://www.makotemplates.org/

http://beaker.groovie.org

Topics:

SQLAlchemy

Bug fixes for the new 0.7 release of SQLAlchemy
Documentation, possible book planning
Unit test cleanup
Dialect features for SQLAlchemy - Sybase reflection, Oracle datatypes, psycopg2 for Python 3, others
ORM features

Mako

Performance Enhancements, refactoring of legacy sections
Bugfixes
Documentation enhancements

Beaker

Bugfixes
Enhanced configurability and usability
Merge the "sqla" and "database" backends
Documentation
Better test coverage for varied backends
Split beaker_extensions into appropriate backends for each one

Attendees:

Mike Bayer
Diana Clarke
Michael Trier (@mtrier)
Denise Govindarajan
Jim Phares
Megan McNulty
Joel Mohler
Mark Sharp
Toby Ho
Brad Allen

Stackless Python

Leader: Kristjan Valur Jonsson

URL: http://stackless.com

Topics:

Bringing back Stackless pickling coolness to regular Python.
Evaluating and extending stacklesslib.
Maybe add detection of blocking operations to stacklesslib (ala canary service at CCP).
Helping people understand how Stackless works under the hood.
Supporting Python 3.x Stackless users, which may include porting utility libraries to 3.x from 2.x.
Making it possible to run Stackless in a way where only soft switching (Python VM level frame dispatching) is used, and not the low-level hard switching (assembler thread stack manipulation).
Extract the tasklet scheduling logic into a scheduler object, if possible. Having the scheduler be a separate module would make it easier to write custom scheduling algorithms, such as priority based scheduling.
Addition: Propose and discuss concepts to add efficient multi-core support to Stackless. What would be the most natural user interface for it?

Attendees:

Kristjan Valur Jonsson.
John Rittenhouse
Ted Koenig
Christian Tismer
David Press
Andrew Francis
Carlos Knippschild
Arkady Koplyarov
Hervé Coatanhay
Alain Poirier
Joshua E Cook
Eugene Oden
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Tahoe-LAFS

Leader: Brian Warner (warner-tahoe@lothar.com)

URL: Tahoe-LAFS

Topics:

Accounting
Grid Setup
Reviewing MDMF

Attendees:

Brian Warner
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Trac

Leader: Eli Carter (elicarter@retracile.net)

URL: Trac

Topics:

Trac core
Trac-related plugins

Attendees:

Eli Carter

Twiggy

Leader Pete Fein (pfein@pobox.com)

URL: Twiggy hg directions

IRC: irc.freenode.net #wearpants

Topics:

Great for new sprinters!
Thread/process context support
New backends (mail, syslog, http)
Stdlib logging compatability layer
Perhaps port to Python 3
Feature additions
Bug Fixes

Attendees

Pete Fein
Quincy Yarde
Kyle Rickey

Twisted

Leader: Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun@twistedmatrix.com)

URL: Twisted, Speed center

Topics:

New HTTP client features - cookies, authentication, redirects, caching, timeouts, form posting
New HTTP server features - streaming uploads, asynchronous child lookup
IPv6
Completing partially finished tickets
Documentation refactor
Port to Python 3

Attendees:

Jean-Paul Calderone
Glyph Lefkowitz
Allen Short
Kevin Horn
Squiddo (noob alert)
Aaron Gallagher (_habnabit)
Pavel Pergamenshchik
Tom Davis
Facundo Batista
lvh
Brian Warner
Drew Smathers

Zope

Leader: Christian Theune (ct AT gocept.com)

URL: http://docs.zope.org/developer/

Topics:

Port ZTK to Python 3
Port ZTK to PyPy
Improve the state of utilities for managing/introspecting the ZODB
webob <=> zope request adapters

Attendees:

Baiju M
Christian Theune
Jeff Rush
Lennart Regebro
David Glick
Tres Seaver
Jim Fulton

Project N - Medical Expert System

Leader: Dr. Inayathullah Ghori (inayath2020@gmail.com)

The goal of this sprint is to try various design strategies, test expert system rules, analyze certainty factor and code a better GUI. We will be using the old mercurial repository.

URL: http://www.naimath.com

Attendees:

PySAML2

Leader: Roland Hedberg (roland.hedberg@adm.umu.se)

PySAML2 was originally designed to support SAML2 authentication for WSGI based applications. It was almost immediately extended to also support Django based applications. The goal of this sprint is to try simplify using PySAML2 from other frameworks.

URL: https://code.launchpad.net/pysaml2

Attendees: