[Sardana-users] Sardana Bug Squashing Party 2022

[Zbigniew R. <zre...@ce...>]

Dear all,

After a successful first edition of the Sardana Bug Squashing Party 2021 
(20 participants & ~40 issues closed) we decided to organize its 2022 
successor and would like to invite you to participate in this event.

The event will continue in spirit of meeting developers from different 
institutes, sharing knowledge by participating in pair-programming 
sessions, peer reviews, etc. at the same time improving the Sardana 
project.

As a novelty, this time it will be in hybrid format. The location will 
be at ALBA Synchrotron [1]. If you need any help with organizing your 
travel/ stay in Barcelona, don't hesitate to contact us. The remote 
participation will be possible via the Zoom platform.

The event will span over three and a half days. You are very welcome to 
stay with us all this time, but you can also choose the days/ time slots 
that fit better to your agenda. So:

  * we will start warming up the engines on 25th of October (Tuesday)
    afternoon
  * continuing with two intensive days 26th and 27th (Wednesday and
    Thursday)
  * and eventually, for the most persistent ones :) there is still 28th
    (Friday) to cool down the engines before the weekend

Currently our GitLab issues backlog counts with ~300 issues (50 less 
than a year ago, mainly thanks to your participation in the last year 
edition!). Now we will proceed to refine the backlog and identify the 
issues that the best fit to the format of the event. But you are free to 
select issues yourself or propose other improvements that you would like 
to work on during the event. Here we encourage you to already start 
discussing them with the rest of the community via GitLab issues.

Last but not least, as preparation for the event, on the next Sardana 
Follow-up meeting on 13th of October we will make a short review of the 
Sardana architecture and code base, and present you the Pool core 
elements test fixtures.

Many thanks in advance for you interest in the Sardana Bug Squashing 
Party 2022 event and we hope to meet with you in Barcelona or via Zoom!

Zibi on behalf of the Sardana Team

[1] https://www.albasynchrotron.es/en/about/coming-to-alba