DCPython Meetup Sprint Plan (Nov 2010)
This is the project planning page for the Python Beginner's Open Source Sprint, organized by the DCPython Meetup (primarily Alex Clark).
There are a lot of people planning to attend, so a little advance planning is worthwhile. If people can figure out what projects they want to work on and use this page to connect with others interested in the same projects, it should be easier to get ourselves organized when we get together.
This is organized with a section for each "larger" project. If you're interested in a project listed here, add your name and any emphasis you'd like to bring to the sprint. If you want to work on a project not listed already, add it!
Beginners
Everyone attending the sprint that has never sprinted before, add your name under "Developers". If you plan to be available to help these folks, add your name and add (helper) afterward.
Developers
- Alex Clark (helper)
- Fred Drake (helper)
- Eric Groo
- Owen Martin
- Barry Austin
- Bob Schmertz
- Mohamed Ainab <MohamedAinab>
- Eric Palakovich Carr
- Londell
- Gabriel Getzie
- Mike Onzay
Tasks
- Pick a project
- Get your laptop setup for development
- Fix bugs!
Python core
The interpreter and standard library.
Developers
Tasks
- PEP-382, namespace packages
- Add alternate float format specifiers (and Decimal, if time)
- Straighten out the JSON issues:
distutils2 (d2)
The next generation of Python packaging. You'll need Mercurial (hg) for revision control, and several versions of Python. See http://bitbucket.org/fdrake/d2dev/src/tip/README.txt for detailed preparation instructions.
Developers
Tasks
- Remove fancygetopt; move to a clean application of optparse.
- the command line tool is now in run.py, with new options,
and pass it to dist+fancygetopt to call the old system
so what could be done is to list:
- all command line options in dist.py that are not a call to a command and its options
- move them to run.py
- remove fancygetopt and clean up dist.
- Try converting a few projects to use d2, preferably based on the documentation alone.
- Continue the work on py3 support (ask tarek or regebro on irc)
Zope Toolkit (ZTK)
Django
Look at fixing some long-standing and reasonably trivial documentation issues. Shared exploration of the code base. Help 1.3 get out the door.
Developers
- Steve Holden but not on my own! ;-)
- Steve Waterbury but this is not a Steves-only project! ;-)
- Alex Clark Maybe I'll watch! :-)
- Eric Palakovich Carr
Tasks
- http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4027
- http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3529
- http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprints#Preparingforthesprint
Possibly consider whether context objects might benefit from the use of structural modifications.
Plone
Python-based, open-source CMS
Developers
Tasks
- PloneSoftwareCenter add-on (http://plone.org/products/plonesoftwarecenter) development
- Fix bugs: http://dev.plone.org/plone.org/search?q=psc&noquickjump=1&ticket=on
- Fix broken tests
Parse2Plone
Utility app for importing static website content into Plone
Developers
Tasks
- Improve test coverage from 50% to 100% for parse2plone (you'll need a github account for this, so you can fork: https://github.com/collective/parse2plone and send me pull requests.)
zc.buildout
A tool for creating repeatable environments
Developers
Tasks
- Fix bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout