Let's start thinking about a Mercurial 2.2 sprint

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 13:07 -0600, Sean Farley wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 15:30 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > Mercurial 2.2 is due to be released on May 1, so I think we're due for a
> > > sprint. Given the code freeze around April 15, I think the most likely
> > > dates are:
> > >
> > > Mar 16-18
> > > Mar 23-25
> > > Mar 30-Apr 1
> > > Apr 6-8
> > >
> > > Ideally, I'd like to have this sprint in North America in keeping with
> > > our scheme of alternating between US and Europe, so let me know if you
> > > have ideas for meeting space.
> >
> > I've started a wiki page here:
> >
> > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/2.2sprint
> 
> 
> Hmm, I'm new to this but I'd like to go and learn, if possible (and I'm
> willing to pay my expenses as long as it's not too much :-/). Ideally, I'd
> like Chicago :-) but it seems that was used for a previous sprint.  Is
> there any place new users can go for an introduction to this kind of event,
> or is this mostly for core devs?

You can look at

 http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CategoryMeetings 

for an overview. Basically these things are about 40% design discussion,
60% coding. So everyone should come prepared to do some hacking.

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