Attendance at the second packaging sprint was very good with a total of eight showing up:
- Pior Bastida
- Alexandre Bourget
- Nicolas Cadou
- Yannick Gingras
- Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
- George Peristerakis
- Cyril Robert
- Jean Schurger
Tarek was kind enough to coach the beginning of the sprint remotely and to produce a list of bugs that are not too hard to undertake and that are not already assigned.
Unfortunately, it was not the most productive sprint that we've had. The complicated state of the packaging in Python and the convoluted Setuptools code made it hard for people to get started and all too tempting to get side tracked on other computer related tasks, such as demonstration of Typeracer in instadeath mode and Nethack strategy coaching. I have to be honest; I deserve my share of the blame.
As far as I can tell, no one got to go beyond making themselves familiar with the code during the sprint proper but it's by learning from our mistakes that we progress. We therefor plan to have the next packaging sprint on a Saturday in order to make it easier to sync with Tarek. Our tentative date is 2010-05-22. Hopefully, we'll be able to gather enough local knowledge to have local coach for the subsequent sprints. One thing that is sure is that for future code sprints, we will ensure that there is an expert on site.
