#acl All:read This is a list of all the accomplishments from the PyCon 2008 Sprints. = 03/17/2008 = * Bitten continuous build tool now supports figleaf for code coverage * Got about 20 unassigned/unclassified issues triaged. * Python: fixed about 8 issues. Backported new buffer protocol and rest of PEP 3127 to 2.6. Converted more tests to unittest or doctest. * Ported [[http://www.imitationpickles.org/melons/|Watermelons]] to the OLPC while creating a [[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Porting_pygame_games_to_the_XO|tutorial]] to port pygame games to the OLPC. * Introduced Liam to using the issue tracker and triaging bugs. * Made TG2's template engine configurable * Preliminary support for Pylons in DBMechanic = 03/18/2008 = * Zope Interfaces now running on Jython * Trac source browser now supports keyboard navigation * Repoze WSGI pluggable auth middleware now does RADIUS authentication * Python: Got around 30 unassigned/unclassified issues triaged and one code change committed. * Python: PEP 361 written, setting the Python 2.6 schedule. * Implemented simple encap/stow style package manager in 54 lines * Ported [[http://www.imitationpickles.org/elephant/|Elephants]] to the OLPC. * Released Graphviz plugin for Trac 0.11 and updated the release for Trac 0.10 * Made it so that shutil.move() will do os.rename() instead of a copy when moving a file to a directory. Huge speed improvement for moving files on the same file-system. * OLPC sprint: XO-Core localization at 100% in [[https://dev.laptop.org/translate/km/|Khmer]] for Cambodia. * Got a new C function-based extension type API working, after several months simmering in development. * Made TurboGears testutil.DBTest work with SQLAlchemy (lmacken) = 03/19/2008 = * TracForge now support basic web-based project creation. * 152 broken tests corrected for SQLAlchemy's Oracle module * flex-pypy proof of concept: A Flash game written in RPython... [[http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/py/chimp/chimp.html|Pummel the chimp!]] * Triaged another 40 issues, closed around six of them. * OLPC sprint: completed main engine for original OLPC game "Tramp Steamer Captain" * Got a bzr mirror of the Python SVN repository up so developers can start experimenting with it. * Created a WebTest-based WSGI unit-testing framework for TG (lmacken) * Fixed a bug that would cause smtplib SSL readlines to hang on EOF. = 03/20/2008 = * Display code coverage in Trac browser for Bitten builds * Ported Pygame Tutorial example code to Sugar/OLPC * Back-ported a change from 2.6 to 2.5 which fixes a syntax problem in the generator statements. * Got the unassigned/unprioritized issue list down under a page long. Closed 4 or 5 issues. * Python: [[http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar/|Experimental Bazaar branches]] set up. = finished 03/22/2008 = * Patch submitted for pydoc to display 'inherited' documentation. = Jython = From [[http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/03/pycon-2008-and-jython.html|Frank Wierzbicki]]: * Start of Twisted on Jython * New compiler/New parser work * Better threading support for Jython * Collaboration with SQLAlchemy to get JDBC support * Work on writing decimal.py as a wrapper around Java's BigDecimal * Work on porting mmap to jython * Work on 2.5 new style class exceptions = SchoolTool Sprint = * Removed breadcrumbs. * Moved navigation menu to top. * Made actions menu row of buttons. * Yearly calendar view displays term information (Filip). * Made SchoolTool more beautiful (Andrew). * Creation of a manage tab, centralizing management screens. * Fixes to timetabling management UI (William). * Fixed score system bug in add activities view (Paul). * Added a home view for persons (William). * Removed use of deprecated zapi (Alan). * Refactored calendar portlet to be viewlet based (Filip). * Significantly improved weekly calendar view with timetable integration (Chris). * Improved SchoolTool resource booking view (Andrew). = Orbited Sprint = * Pylons demo fixed and updated to orbited 0.3.2, thanks to Wes Devauld * New modpython tutorial, thanks to Roy Han * Daemonization of 0.3.2 thanks to Wes Devauld * Great new real-time RSS Feed reader, by Jared and Phillip * Revolved Publish/subscribe in 0.4.0 branch, thanks to Marcus Cavanaugh * rel 0.1.12 fixes threading and memory leak issues for Orbited, thanks to Mario Balibrera * CSP protocol redisign, thanks to Michael Carter and Marcus Cavanaugh * dez/WSGI fixes and Pylons integration for 0.4.0 thanks to Matthew Desmaris * Turbogears integration thanks to Toshio Kuratomi * Long running download progress bar demo, thanks to Will (tutorial to come) * All transports ported to Orbited 0.4.0, thanks to Marcus Cavanaugh ---- CategoryPyCon2008