From: Eric D. <er...@do...> - 2006-12-08 23:31:05
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Hi All. I'm a member of the Front Range Pythoneers. http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontRangePythoneers We've been revitalizing our local python community in recent months and had a successful sprint last month to push forward oracle support in django. I'm organizing another sprint (tentatively planned for January) with the goal of giving jython a little love, per Charles Nutter's suggestion: http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/11/jython-alive-and-well-and-looking- for.html We're a group of fairly experienced developers with a particular interest in python and also fans of jython. I'm kinda pushing a personal agenda in our group to actually program together rather than just talking about programming. My question for you is how can we best be of help? There's at least four of us who have expressed interest. One specifically mentioned support for (at least) python 2.3. Another is known for his zeal for python iterators and generators. That's as much as I can tell you about our interests coming in. I think all for of us have a good bit of java experience and at least a couple have done non-trivial work in jython too. We worked for nine or ten hours at the last sprint but a fair chunk of that was lost in setup, so this time I'm planning to assign a little homework to get as much of the setup done before we come together for the sprint. What I've put together so far includes the following: Please read the jython developer faq and guide: http://www.jython.org/Project/devfaq.html http://www.jython.org/Project/devguide.html If you don't already have a subversion client installed, please get one and check out the jython source code and try building and running their tests. Anything else you'd suggest for homework? Do you have any burning needs that could be usefully delegated to people who've never looked at your code before? What branch would you recommend we start with? Are any of you living near the Denver Metro Area and would be interested in joining us? ('cos we'll meet in Boulder again) At our django sprint it was especially helpful to have one of their committers join us -- he created a branch for our work and also pointed us to specific areas of the code when we ran into problems. That was particularly helpful. Take care. -Eric http://dobbse.net/ |
From: Charlie G. <cha...@gm...> - 2006-12-15 06:30:23
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Hi Eric, On 12/8/06, Eric Dobbs <er...@do...> wrote: > We've been revitalizing our local python community in recent months > and had a successful sprint last month to push forward oracle support > in django. I'm organizing another sprint (tentatively planned for > January) with the goal of giving jython a little love, per Charles > Nutter's suggestion: > http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/11/jython-alive-and-well-and-looking- > for.html Sounds great! > Please read the jython developer faq and guide: > http://www.jython.org/Project/devfaq.html > http://www.jython.org/Project/devguide.html > > If you don't already have a subversion client installed, please get > one and check out the jython source code and try building and running > their tests. > > Anything else you'd suggest for homework? I'd suggest having them read http://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonDeveloperGuide It walks through setting things up and getting them to build and it's up to date. > Do you have any burning > needs that could be usefully delegated to people who've never looked > at your code before? What branch would you recommend we start with? I'd recommend the 2.3 branch. I've been starting people out with porting a Python module written in C to Jython as described in http://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonDeveloperGuide/PortingPythonModulesToJython. Paul has been making a nice writeup of porting the csv module in more detail in his blog at http://gushieblog.blogspot.com/ I've wanted to get unicodedata for a while since several things depend on it. If you've got someone with some serious unicode experience that could be nice. We're moving to Java 1.4(or 5) for 2.3 so the select implementation could use Java's nio which would be much better than the current implementation. If someone has serious nio or select experience, that could be a good target. You could also look at http://wiki.python.org/jython/BiggerTasks for things to do. They're probably a little too much to pick up and do something significant with in one day, but if someone wants to get started before hand, there's a fair amount in there. Some of those are more involved than they appear at first glance, so I'd run any selections from there past the list before embarking on them. > Are any of you living near the Denver Metro Area and would be > interested in joining us? ('cos we'll meet in Boulder again) At our > django sprint it was especially helpful to have one of their > committers join us -- he created a branch for our work and also > pointed us to specific areas of the code when we ran into problems. > That was particularly helpful. I'd love to come, but that'd be a long drive from South Carolina :) If none of the other committers are in the area, I could get on IRC during the sprint to answer questions and commit things as they come through. Good luck, Charlie |
From: Eric D. <er...@do...> - 2006-12-20 17:16:48
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Thanks for the reply, Charlie. Our plans have expanded a bit. :-) We'll be doing a couple sprints both of which aim to serve as preparation for an extended sprint at PyCon 2007. Here's where we're going to be working out details: http://wiki.python.org/moin/JythonSprint For your convenience, here are the dates for the first couple sprints: Jan 6, Feb 3 (Saturdays 9 AM - 6 PM) at bivio And here's where folks can find time and location stuff (along with some notes about past sprints): http://wiki.python.org/moin/BoulderSprint On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Charlie Groves wrote: >> Are any of you living near the Denver Metro Area and would be >> interested in joining us? ('cos we'll meet in Boulder again) > > I'd love to come, but that'd be a long drive from South Carolina :) The offer is still open to anyone who'd like to attend. If it provides any further temptation, The February sprint might be a good weekend for skiing. Maybe a little code on Saturday and a little snow on Sunday, anyone? ;-) Take care. -Eric |
From: Oti <oh...@gm...> - 2006-12-21 21:08:56
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Eric, thanks for the invitation ! But I live in Europe (and we are waiting for snow, by the way :-) best wishes, Oti. On 12/20/06, Eric Dobbs <er...@do...> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Charlie. Our plans have expanded a bit. :-) > We'll be doing a couple sprints both of which aim to serve as > preparation for an extended sprint at PyCon 2007. > > Here's where we're going to be working out details: > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/JythonSprint > > For your convenience, here are the dates for the first couple sprints: > > Jan 6, Feb 3 (Saturdays 9 AM - 6 PM) at bivio > > And here's where folks can find time and location stuff (along with > some notes about past sprints): > http://wiki.python.org/moin/BoulderSprint > > > On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:30 PM, Charlie Groves wrote: > > >> Are any of you living near the Denver Metro Area and would be > >> interested in joining us? ('cos we'll meet in Boulder again) > > > > I'd love to come, but that'd be a long drive from South Carolina :) > > > The offer is still open to anyone who'd like to attend. If it > provides any further temptation, The February sprint might be a good > weekend for skiing. Maybe a little code on Saturday and a little > snow on Sunday, anyone? ;-) > > Take care. > -Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Jython-dev mailing list > Jyt...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jython-dev > |
From: Eric D. <er...@do...> - 2006-12-21 22:23:50
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On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Oti wrote: > thanks for the invitation ! > But I live in Europe (and we are waiting for snow, by the way :-) Has news of our little snow storm made it all the way to Europe? The driveway and sidewalk I shoveled this morning had half a meter of snow on it (20" for the yanks. :-) Happy holidays everyone. -Eric |