We're happy to host the mercurial Sprint

Arthur Lutz — 2010-02-02T10:30-01:00

We're very happy to be hosting the next mercurial sprint in our brand new offices in central Paris. It is quite an honor to be chosen when the other contender was Google.

So a bunch of mercurial developers are heading out to our offices this coming Friday to sprint for three days on mercurial. We use mercurial a lot here over at Logilab and we also contribute a tool to visualize and manipulate a mercurial repository : hgview.

To check out the things that we will be working on with the mercurial crew, check out the program of the sprint on their wiki.

What is a sprint? "A sprint (sometimes called a Code Jam or hack-a-thon) is a short time period (three to five days) during which software developers work on a particular chunk of functionality. "The whole idea is to have a focused group of people make progress by the end of the week," explains Jeff Whatcott" [source]. For geographically distributed open source communities, it is also a way of physically meeting and working in the same room for a period of time.

Sprinting is a practice that we encourage at Logilab, with CubicWeb we organize as often as possible open sprints, which is an opportunity for users and developers to come and code with us. We even use the sprint format for some internal stuff.

photo by Sebastian Mary under creative commons licence.

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We're happy to host the mercurial Sprint