Mercurial Mini Sprint at Pycon 2014

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 03/17/2014 12:13 PM, Long Vu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:57 PM, David Soria Parra
> <dsp at experimentalworks.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this years pycon is held in Montreal from April 11 to 13. Like every
>> year there is going to be sprinting days between April 14 and April
>> 17. The Mercurial project will sprint, so please feel free to signup at
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/14042014MiniSprintPyconMontreal if
>> you are at pycon and want to sprint with us.
>>
>> The sprint will most likely focus on bundle2 format and some general
>> bugfixing.
>>
>
> Is the sprint limited to core mercurial developper only?  Or anyone
> knowing Python and familiar with Mercurial can participate?

Anyone is welcome. Were usually see new faces during sprint. Its good 
way to kick start your first patches.

> I've read about generaldeltas format.  I wonder if that's stable
> enough for production use and if there's any pending bugs I am more
> than willing to help fixing them.

Use of general delta by default is blocked by the lack of support in the 
bundle format used during exchanges. I hope to have made major progress 
in that area by Pycon. It'll be then a very good topic to discuss and 
work on.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David