[pypy-svn] r17112 - pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo
hpk at codespeak.net
hpk at codespeak.net
Wed Aug 31 09:45:35 CEST 2005
Author: hpk
Date: Wed Aug 31 09:45:34 2005
New Revision: 17112
Added:
pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/Heidelberg-report.txt
Log:
a first draft of the heidelberg sprint report.
please check/extend/review. i fear it's not
complete, i only skimmed the commit messages
and didn't list or know about all of the small steps.
Added: pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/Heidelberg-report.txt
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+Heidelberg sprint report 22nd-29th August
+=============================================
+
+The heidelberg sprint was announced_ late July
+and around `13 people registered`_ and showed up
+at the nice Heidelberg physics institute which
+Carl Friedrich Bolz had organized for us.
+
+The sprint was focused on getting a `0.7.0 release out`_
+and improve and refine crucial areas like
+threading, GC and CPython compliancy. Here
+is what people worked on in a somewhat chronological
+particular order:
+
+- Samuele and Carl worked on refactoring the parts of genc
+ that are responsible for the use of refcounting in the translation to make
+ it possible to compile with a different GC strategy. It turned out that
+ refcounting is kind of deeply embedded into genc so it took a lot
+ of time to introduce sensible hooks that other GCs could use.
+
+- Armin and Richard changed genc so that it can handle
+ locks as external objects that Armin had to introduce to
+ implement threading in PyPy. For now we have a simple GIL but it is not
+ deeply implanted in the interpreter so we should be able to
+ change that later. After two days of hacking they were finished
+ although some more translation related issues popped up and
+ were fixed.
+
+- Holger continously prepared the release infrastructure and refactored
+ the website and documentation to allow it to be presented
+ by version in the future. For the next time, we will nevertheless
+ continue to use only "dist" as we don't expect interesting
+ or neccessaries branches/splits of documentation or website
+ content.
+
+- Anders L. and Jacob worked on compliancy worked on compliancy:
+ they fixed some failing tests related to unicode and codecs
+ and binascii.
+
+- Initially Ludovic and Nik worked on making more parts of our
+ compiler RPython and Ludovic continued this effort on "astcompiler"
+ for some days before he focused on fixing compiler compliancy
+ bugs along with Holger and Samuele and a host of others
+ who had fun with CPython's somewhat non-compliant compiler
+ package.
+
+- Laura continued working on a docstring exctraction tool
+ and cared for getting docstrings into PyPy builtin
+ type objects.
+
+- Niklaus Heidimann moved his _sre implementation
+ *incrementally* to interpreter level and succeeded
+ to have it fully running and translateable for the
+ release!
+
+- Richard Emslie and Eric van Riet Paap continously worked
+ on improving and fixing LLVM. They succeeded in reusing
+ genc's external function implementations but had to setup
+ a build indirection via codespeak: to compile llvm-files
+ source code is sent to a CGI on codespeak and the result
+ is sent back to the client. This makes it easier for
+ people who don't have a CVS version of LLVM installed.
+ They discovered and communicated with llvm-dev about
+ LLVM bugs. In the end they managed they managed to
+ have a full LLVM backend documented and running for
+ the 0.7.0 release!
+
+- Christian worked on implementing various external functions
+ and hacked a "fakecompiler" compilation with the translated
+ pypy-c that delegates bytecode compilation to a python
+ process. The idea was to have running of tests on the
+ translated PyPy work. Christian also worked on fixing
+ the build process for win32.
+
+- Many of us worked on the break day (which just was too rainy)
+ and increased test compliancy by 10%, fixing and tackling
+ numerous issues. Anders C. was one of the person who
+ continously worked on classifying and fixing core tests.
+ holger with help from Niklaus fixed a couple of conftest
+ compliancy-testing related bugs.
+
+- Ludovic and Holger refactored the compiler and parser option
+ handling and added a README.compiling to make things slightly
+ less obscure.
+
+- Armin, Samuele and others refactored the translation entry
+ points and also made the pypy-c/pypy-llvm entry points nicer
+ (adding --info and --version options). Samuele also unified
+ the way we specify which app/mixed modules should be used.
+
+- Carl Friedrich and Holger updated a lot of documentation and
+ release issues, worked on getting-started, wrote the release
+ announcement, the LICENSE files and checked that examples still
+ work and make sense.
+
+- Carl also quickly implemented the 'errno' mixed module.
+
+- Bea worked on coordination and management issues
+ and wrote a document describing our sprint development
+ process. She also worked on a "dissemination plan"
+ and talked to various interested parties regarding
+ their plans for the future. She also convened with
+ Jacob and Stephan on monday to talk about management
+ responsibilities in the near future. There now is the
+ "3rd amendment" to the EU contract scheduled for
+ 7th September. Holger and Bea listed the steps
+ required for getting Michael Hudson on the project
+ through the University of Bristol.
+
+On sunday afternoon (basically the last day where mostly
+everbody was there) we had a kind of sprint-conclusion
+and what to do next meeting, originally planned as
+the technical board meeting. There we talked about
+the next areas for cleanup (partly listed in this
+`pypy-dev mail`_).
+
+.. _`13 people registered`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/heidelberg-people.html
+.. _`announced`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/Heidelberg-sprint.html
+.. _`0.7.0 release out`: http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2005q3/002294.html
+.. _`pypy-dev mail`: http://codespeak.net/pipermail/pypy-dev/2005q3/002301.html
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