Hi folks, We plan to do a py lib / py.test sprint as a track on the pypy sprint after PyCon 2006 from 27th February till 2nd March, current ideas are: * integrating doctests (finally!) * better test selection support * adding profiling * improving and refining reporting with py.test * discuss/refine py.test's architecture * whatever we come up with until then Apart from me, Jan Balster also Brian Dorsey will participate in the sprint. Would be great to have some more people showing up and moving py.test to the next steps! Please send a note to me if you want to come or follow the instructions further below. cheers, holger Post-PyCon PyPy Sprint: February 27th - March 2nd 2006 ============================================================ The next PyPy sprint is scheduled to take place right after PyCon 2006 in Dallas, Texas, USA. We hope to see lots of newcomers at this sprint, so we'll give friendly introductions. Note that during the Pycon conference we are giving PyPy talks which serve well as preparation. Goals and topics of the sprint ------------------------------ While attendees of the sprint are of course welcome to work on what they wish, we offer these ideas: - Work on an 'rctypes' module aiming at letting us use a ctypes implementation of an extension module from the compiled pypy-c. - Writing ctypes implementations of modules to be used by the above tool. - Experimenting with different garbage collection strategies. - Implementing Python 2.5 features in PyPy - Implementation of constraints solvers and integration of dataflow variables to PyPy. - Implement new features and improve the 'py' lib and py.test which are heavily used by PyPy (doctests/test selection/...). - Generally experiment with PyPy -- for example, play with transparent distribution of objects or coroutines and stackless features at application level. - Have fun! Location -------- The sprint will be held wherever the PyCon sprints end up being held, which is to say somewhere within the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum hotel. For more information see the PyCon 06 sprint pages: - http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/Sprinting - http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Sprints Exact times ----------- The PyPy sprint will from from Monday February 27th until Thursday March 2nd 2006. Hours will be from 10:00 until people have had enough. Registration, etc. ------------------ If you know before the conference that you definitely want to attend our sprint, please subscribe to the `PyPy sprint mailing list`_, introduce yourself and post a note that you want to come. Feel free to ask any questions or make suggestions there! There is a separate `PyCon 06 people`_ page tracking who is already planning to come. If you have commit rights on codespeak then you can modify yourself a checkout of http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/pycon06/people.txt .. _`PyPy sprint mailing list`: http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint .. _`PyCon 06 people`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/pycon06/people.txt