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5.4 Sprint

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1. Date and location

The sprint will be held in Paris on March 27th - 29th.

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The sprint will host at:

Location point of contact: Chloé Rebattu contact AT octobus.net

For the record, other location options were:

Location

Host

Point of Contact

Feb 21-23

Feb 28-Mar 1

Mar 6-8

Mar 13-15

Mar 20-22

Mar 27-29

Notes

Espoo, Finland

Open-Xchange

Jeff Sipek

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Antwerp, Belgium

Nokia

Mathias De Maré

{X}

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Paris, France

Mozilla

Connor Sheehan

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{X}

{X}

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Availability tentative (depends on Connor availability)

Paris, France

Logilab

Katia Saurfelt

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If you need a formal invitation for visa purposes, contact contact@octobus.net .

1.1. People Availability

2. Attendance

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Everyone is welcome from core developers to aspiring contributors. Attending a Mercurial sprint is usually a good way to kickstart your contributions as you'll get a large amount of help available for 3 days.

Name

Coming from

Need funding

Hotel

In Town Dates

Notes

Logilab

Paris

{X}

Pierre-YvesDavid

Paris

{X}

AntonShestakov

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3. Sponsors

We need funds to pay for flights and hotels for a few independent contributors.

Recent sprints sponsoring budgets were around $10,000.

Sponsoring Company:

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4. Meals

Having food delivered for Lunch is usually preferred as it helps keep the timing under control. Dinner is usually taken outside to help people cool off after a day of work.

(Don't forget vegetarian and vegan options)

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Day

Meal

Details

Organiser (when relevant)

Friday

Lunch

Friday

Dinner

Saturday

Lunch

Saturday

Dinner

Sunday

Lunch

Sunday

Dinner

5. Possible Topics

Important things we want to discuss: (add your own)

5.1. Tags

Multiple large users have their own overwrite of Mercurial tag system. It is worth reviewing what and why they do it and maybe make plan to improve the situation accordingly.

5.2. Releases

Right now durin42 is doing all the releases, and has some help doing release notes. It'd be nice to have others start rolling releases. Is anyone interested? Can we automate this more?

5.3. Obsshelve

What needs to be done to get this to replace current shelve?

5.4. Replication-friendly repository format

durin42 is interested in (and has a handwave of a design for) a storage layer that would be replication-friendly. Basically, "how could we restructure repo storage so that it would be safe to put in {Dropbox,CIFS,etc}"?

5.5. More command "namespace"

Right now we have the normal namespace and the "debug" namespace. It would be useful to have a couple more explicit namespace with their own guarantee. For example one dedicated to maintenance command (debugupdatecache, debugrebuildstate, debugupgraderepo, etc…) and one for other tooling (eg: debugcompletion)

5.6. Google's --changeset-as-wdir feature

Multiple contributors from google are trying to have various existing commands being able to consider a revision in place of the working copy. This is an interesting and powerful idea that is worth discussing in greater length. See plan page.

6. Sprint Notes

General overview (drop the anti spam part): https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/sprint-hgx.y-NOSPAMREMOVETHATLASTPAST ( <!> update URL)

The table below is an attempt to gather written summary of discussion

Session theme

notes/result

People who know what happened


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