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For more information about sprints in general, read the SprintIntroduction page. SteveHolden has a useful [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html article] in the [http://www.onlamp.com/python/ OnLamp Python DevCenter ] on how to run a sprint.

Jython Sprint

Date/time

Location

TBA

Project

Update Jython. [http://wiki.python.org/jython/MovingJythonForward Brian Zimmer's proposal] is an useful outline of what needs to be done technically. Perhaps even more importantly, there are some key engineering challenges to be addressed to ensure overall project success. Because of the scope of the work, we are looking at this as preliminary to [http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Sprints a 4-day sprint at PyCon]. More here at JythonSprint.

Previous Sprints

Date/time

Location

[http://www.bivio.biz/ bivio Software, Inc.], 28th and Iris. Above Hair Elite in Suite S. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2701+Iris+Ave.,+Boulder+CO&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1&iwloc=A Google Maps link]

Thanks to Alex Viggio, Eric Dobbs, and Rob Nagler of bivio for generously providing us this sprint space.

Projects

Complete support for Oracle in Django in time for 1.0. Suggested by Matt Boersma.

Specifically, we would like to build on the good work already done by the Django community to produce a single patch that can be applied to current subversion sources, enabling Django's ORM to pass basic tests against an Oracle database. The current patches available have Oracle-specific conditional tests in many locations; we will try to confine such code to the django.db.backends.oracle package.

References

The bug report stipulating Oracle support by Django version 1.0 is here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1990

Preliminary Tasks

(Many of these are refinements and performance improvements that we won't get to, since we're focused only on correct behavior right now. But several of us reviewed the code and didn't want to lose any feedback. After the sprint, we will enter the outstanding issues in [http://code.djangoproject.com/newticket the Django project Trac].)

Participants

  1. Jim Baker
  2. Matt Boersma, Aries, the man with the plan
  3. Eric Dobbs
  4. Ian Kelly, Pisces, he who shall do all the work
  5. Matt Drew, Capricorn, master pizza orderer
  6. Michelle Cyr, Cancer, senior ice cream fetcher
  7. Jacob Kaplan-Moss, lead Django developer!
  8. Malcolm Tredinnick (working remotely from Sydney -- with the flu, no less!)
  9. Mitchell W. Smith, Virgo, schwag coordinator

Post Sprint Party

Some of us are planning to go to the [http://www.bouldercuba.org/ Cuban Connection fundraiser], 6 PM - 1 AM, St. Julien Hotel (our favorite meeting place for FrontRangePythoneers). In addition to raising money for a good cause, this will be a chance to stretch our weary coding muscles while dancing salsa to Quemando and Havana NRG.

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