Sprint reports 2003-2006
Hi there We now have a page linking to all sprint reports from PyPy sprints since the project started 2003 up to present time. http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/sprint-reports.html There are 22 (!!) sprints during this period and we have reports from 16 of them (soon - after the ongoing Limerick sprint 17 ;-). This page should help people to better understand the progress of the project - so enjoy a stroll down the PyPy memory lane. Thanks Michael for helping out with this. Cheers Bea
Great work! I think we should try to reconstruct at least stub reports for the remaining sprints. Here are some notes on what happened at the ones I attended. This is in no way complete (and fairly Jacob focused, since I remember what I did, but have a hazy understanding of what others did): Gothenburg (May 2003) =================== The major focus of the sprint was to make the interpreter chain complete. A first goal was to make "Hello world" run and this was accomplished about half way into the sprint. We then proceded to making a more complex program that had operations involving string operations and dictionaries work. This was accomplished before the end of the sprint. http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0062.jpg There was a big discussion, mostly involving Armin and Samuele over how to handle operator dispatching. This ended in the Multimethod dispatcher that mostly still survives in the Standard Object Space. http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0064.jpg http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0065.jpg http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0066.jpg People I remember being there: Armin, Christian, Samuele, Michael, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, Laura, Tomek Meka Europython/Gothenburg (June 2004) ============================= The sprint happened before the conference, and I'm rather hazy on what actually happened since I spent almost all my time on conference preparations. I'm rather certain Christian, Holger, Armin and Anders Lehman were there. Maybe they can fill in details. (To jog your memories, you were sitting in a room with green doors, skylights and no windows in the IT-support department). Vilnius (Nov 2004) =============== I don't really remember what others did at this sprint, but this is where Laura and I wrote the file I/O handling. People I remember being there: Marius Gedminas, Bob Ippolito, Christian, Armin. Leysin (April 2006) =============== Armin, Arre and Samuele started with 2 days working on the JIT. When others joined the sprint focus changed and there was a bunch of work on fixing translation to work with stackless features and other stuff. There was also some work done on the constraints package. People I remember being there: Armin, Arre, Samuele, Holger, Michael, Alexandre, Aurelien Europython/Gothenburg (June 2005) ============================= Apart from the presprint, which is already reoprted, there was an open post.-Europython sprint. At the open sprint there were 24 people on the first day and activities happened on may fronts. A large group of people focused on porting PyPy to support Python2.4. This work was 3/4 finished by the end of the sprint. Christian and Jacob worked on support for floats and Jacob did a bunch of work on binascii and related modules. I think there was also a bunch of work going into annotation, translation and the C and llvm backends. Nick worked on his sre Summer of Code project. There was also work being done on the AST compiler. People I remember being there: All the regulars plus Anders Qvist and Marius Gedminas.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:15:28PM +0200, Jacob Hallén wrote:
Vilnius (Nov 2004) =============== I don't really remember what others did at this sprint, but this is where Laura and I wrote the file I/O handling.
People I remember being there: Marius Gedminas, Bob Ippolito, Christian, Armin.
IIRC everyone was overjoyed when PyPy managed to completely translate into C and compute the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything (def somefunc(): return -6 * -7).
Europython/Gothenburg (June 2005) ============================= Apart from the presprint, which is already reoprted, there was an open post.-Europython sprint. At the open sprint there were 24 people on the first day and activities happened on may fronts. A large group of people focused on porting PyPy to support Python2.4. This work was 3/4 finished by the end of the sprint. Christian and Jacob worked on support for floats and Jacob did a bunch of work on binascii and related modules. I think there was also a bunch of work going into annotation, translation and the C and llvm backends. Nick worked on his sre Summer of Code project. There was also work being done on the AST compiler.
People I remember being there: All the regulars plus Anders Qvist and Marius Gedminas.
I was there for one day only, and didn't get anything done. (I tried to make py.test run the Zope 3 testsuite, which was not a very PyPy-related task.) Marius Gedminas -- If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. -- Norm Schryer
Hi there Thanks Jacob and Marius for your feedback. I am working on updating the sprint report page with this feedback. If anyone has comments and want me to add stuff/clear out missing pieces - please email me and I will update. Cheers Bea Jacob Hallén skrev:
Great work!
I think we should try to reconstruct at least stub reports for the remaining sprints. Here are some notes on what happened at the ones I attended. This is in no way complete (and fairly Jacob focused, since I remember what I did, but have a hazy understanding of what others did):
Gothenburg (May 2003) =================== The major focus of the sprint was to make the interpreter chain complete. A first goal was to make "Hello world" run and this was accomplished about half way into the sprint. We then proceded to making a more complex program that had operations involving string operations and dictionaries work. This was accomplished before the end of the sprint.
http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0062.jpg
There was a big discussion, mostly involving Armin and Samuele over how to handle operator dispatching. This ended in the Multimethod dispatcher that mostly still survives in the Standard Object Space.
http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0064.jpg http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0065.jpg http://www.strakt.com/~jacob/pypy/img_0066.jpg
People I remember being there: Armin, Christian, Samuele, Michael, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, Laura, Tomek Meka
Europython/Gothenburg (June 2004) ============================= The sprint happened before the conference, and I'm rather hazy on what actually happened since I spent almost all my time on conference preparations. I'm rather certain Christian, Holger, Armin and Anders Lehman were there. Maybe they can fill in details. (To jog your memories, you were sitting in a room with green doors, skylights and no windows in the IT-support department).
Vilnius (Nov 2004) =============== I don't really remember what others did at this sprint, but this is where Laura and I wrote the file I/O handling.
People I remember being there: Marius Gedminas, Bob Ippolito, Christian, Armin.
Leysin (April 2006) =============== Armin, Arre and Samuele started with 2 days working on the JIT. When others joined the sprint focus changed and there was a bunch of work on fixing translation to work with stackless features and other stuff. There was also some work done on the constraints package.
People I remember being there: Armin, Arre, Samuele, Holger, Michael, Alexandre, Aurelien
Europython/Gothenburg (June 2005) ============================= Apart from the presprint, which is already reoprted, there was an open post.-Europython sprint. At the open sprint there were 24 people on the first day and activities happened on may fronts. A large group of people focused on porting PyPy to support Python2.4. This work was 3/4 finished by the end of the sprint. Christian and Jacob worked on support for floats and Jacob did a bunch of work on binascii and related modules. I think there was also a bunch of work going into annotation, translation and the C and llvm backends. Nick worked on his sre Summer of Code project. There was also work being done on the AST compiler.
People I remember being there: All the regulars plus Anders Qvist and Marius Gedminas.
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