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Re: Are YOU interested in a potential remote sprint sometime in October/November? (yes YOU!)



On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:22:28PM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> At DC22, a few people seemed interested in a potential Python Team remote
> sprint, sometime between October and early December.
> 
> I'm thus writing to the list to see if there is indeed interest for this. If
> only 2 people reply, I won't push this further :)
> 
> Here are a few potential ideas of things people could work on, in no
> particular order:
> 
> - working on testing and merging the pybuild-autodep8 feature [1]

I'm very much invested in getting this done. I plan to be participate to
help make it happen.

> - fixing the ~50 packages that are still using 'python3 setup.py' [2]
> - reviewing and merging unnoticed salsa MRs on the Team's packages [3]
> - fixing policy violations [4]
> - upstreaming CPython patches [5]
> - trying to remove all remaining Python 2 packages [6]
> - working on PEP 668 [7] [8]
> - working on lintian tags for the team [9]
> - patching tracker.debian.org (Django) to show pending MRs [10] [11]
> 
> People are of course welcome to work on whatever other things they see fit
> for the betterment of the Team :)
> 
> I've done a remote sprint for the Clojure Team back in May and it went
> great.
> 
> Each people registered and we asked for a food budget, based on the "Meals
> and Incidentals Rate" the US government publishes for most cities in the
> world [12] [13]. I encourage you to look up your city, but I know I ended up
> eating pretty well :)
> 
> I would envision a 3 day sprint (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) being long enough
> yet not too long for most of us to make progress on key issues without being
> over-tiring.
> 
> Happy to hear back from y'all (please do if you're interested). If I see
> people are interested, I'll send a poll to find the most suitable dates.

I would be willing to join, at least all day on Friday and a few hours
during both days in the weekend.

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