This is a list of all the accomplishments from the PyCon 2008 Sprints.

03/17/2008

• Bitten continuous build tool now supports figleaf for code coverage
• Got about 20 unassigned/unclassified issues triaged.
• Python: fixed about 8 issues. Backported new buffer protocol and rest of PEP 3127 to 2.6. Converted more tests to unittest or doctest.

• Ported [http://www.imitationpickles.org/melons/ Watermelons] to the OLPC while creating a [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Porting_pygame_games_to_the_XO tutorial] to port pygame games to the OLPC.

• Introduced Liam to using the issue tracker and triaging bugs.
• Made TG2's template engine configurable

03/18/2008

• Zope Interfaces now running on Jython
• Trac source browser now supports keyboard navigation
• Repoze WSGI pluggable auth middleware now does RADIUS authentication
• Python: Got around 30 unassigned/unclassified issues triaged and one code change committed.
• Python: PEP 361 written, setting the Python 2.6 schedule.
• Implemented simple encap/stow style package manager in 54 lines

• Ported [http://www.imitationpickles.org/elephant/ Elephants] to the OLPC.

• Released Graphviz plugin for Trac 0.11 and updated the release for Trac 0.10
• Made it so that shutil.move() will do os.rename() instead of a copy when moving a file to a directory. Huge speed improvement for moving files on the same file-system.

• OLPC sprint: XO-Core localization at 100% in [https://dev.laptop.org/translate/km/ Khmer] for Cambodia.

• Got a new C function-based extension type API working, after several months simmering in development.

• Made TurboGears testutil.DBTest work with SQLAlchemy (lmacken)

03/19/2008

• TracForge now support basic web-based project creation.

• 152 broken tests corrected for SQLAlchemy's Oracle module

• flex-pypy proof of concept: A Flash game written in RPython... [http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/py/chimp/chimp.html Pummel the chimp!]

• Triaged another 40 issues, closed around six of them.
• OLPC sprint: completed main engine for original OLPC game "Tramp Steamer Captain"
• Got a bzr mirror of the Python SVN repository up so developers can start experimenting with it.

• Created a WebTest-based WSGI unit-testing framework for TG (lmacken)

• Fixed a bug that would cause smtplib SSL readlines to hang on EOF.

03/20/2008

• Display code coverage in Trac browser for Bitten builds
• Ported Pygame Tutorial example code to Sugar/OLPC
• Back-ported a change from 2.6 to 2.5 which fixes a syntax problem in the generator statements.
• Got the unassigned/unprioritized issue list down under a page long. Closed 4 or 5 issues.

• Python: [http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar/ Experimental Bazaar branches] set up.

finished 03/22/2008

• Patch submitted for pydoc to display 'inherited' documentation.

Jython

From [http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2008/03/pycon-2008-and-jython.html Frank Wierzbicki]:

• Start of Twisted on Jython
• New compiler/New parser work
• Better threading support for Jython
• Collaboration with SQLAlchemy to get JDBC support

• Work on writing decimal.py as a wrapper around Java's BigDecimal

• Work on porting mmap to jython

SchoolTool Sprint

• Removed breadcrumbs.
• Moved navigation menu to top.
• Made actions menu row of buttons.
• Yearly calendar view displays term information (Filip).

• Made SchoolTool more beautiful (Andrew).

• Creation of a manage tab, centralizing management screens.
• Fixes to timetabling management UI (William).
• Fixed score system bug in add activities view (Paul).
• Added a home view for persons (William).
• Removed use of deprecated zapi (Alan).
• Refactored calendar portlet to be viewlet based (Filip).
• Significantly improved weekly calendar view with timetable integration (Chris).

• Improved SchoolTool resource booking view (Andrew).

Orbited Sprint

• Pylons demo fixed and updated to orbited 0.3.2, thanks to Wes Devauld
• New modpython tutorial, thanks to Roy Han
• Daemonization of 0.3.2 thanks to Wes Devauld
• Great new real-time RSS Feed reader, by Jared and Phillip
• Revolved Publish/subscribe in 0.4.0 branch, thanks to Marcus Cavanaugh
• rel 0.1.12 fixes threading and memory leak issues for Orbited, thanks to Mario Balibrera
• CSP protocol redisign, thanks to Michael Carter and Marcus Cavanaugh
• dez/WSGI fixes and Pylons integration for 0.4.0 thanks to Matthew Desmaris
• Turbogears integration thanks to Toshio Kuratomi
• Long running download progress bar demo, thanks to Will (tutorial to come)
• All transports ported to Orbited 0.4.0, thanks to Marcus Cavanaugh