New Cows

Last day of sprinting. I had the idea most people were at least somewhat tired by now. I know I am.

We started the day with sprinter group reports (again, I hope I do not forget something here..):

Jan-Jaap kept an eye on the build slaves for Grok during our release preparations. This revealed a last minute bug in test cases of grokcore.view on Windows. Of course someone left filesystem path comparisons in the tests that could not work on Windows (hint: it was me…). So with a fast bugfix release of that we had all green flags and we were good to go for the 1.0b2.

Leonardo explored various aproaches to creating new grok projects without having to be online. Grokproject tries to do that, but it is not yet ideal. Maybe there're better eays of achieving this.

Sacha had been working on creating an Ubuntu Live-CD with one of more Grok applications installed on it to really have an "out-of-the-box" experience for people who want to give Grok a try.

Timo finished the migration of http://grok.zope.org to a more recent version of Plone. Great! It probably took him longer that he had hoped, but we're very glad he picked up this ball!

Sylvain had been working on porting five.grok and a lot of related packages to 1.0b2. It proofed not be that diffcult.

The documentation team gathered notes and remarks on the various tutorials and other documentation about using Grok. They are encouraged to send these notes to the Grok documentation mailinglist so that this useful work is not forgotten. It also makes for a nice "deliverable" for yourself to be able to share what you've been working on with others.

Vincent had been working the rdb integration libaries for Grok. There were late-night :-) checkins of an rdbexample application for Grok to demonstrate how this works. But he worked on megrok.z3cform and grokui.admin and a lot more packages too!

Souheil too worked on the grokui.admin package and made good progress for making this UI pluggable! He also updated megrok.*` packages to work with 1.0b2.

Martijn and I continued on grokcore.view and later split up: Martijn worked with on the rdb libraries and the ZTK and together with Jan-Jaap I explored how an integration of z3c.hashedresource and hurry.resource and grok.DirectoryResource could look like.

So, that was it. Now we're off to dinner somewhere in the city center of Köln and tomorrow will have early breakfast with whoever is still around.

Thank you all for a very productive sprint! See you next time, hopefully soon!

Let's also not forget to thank Alroldo and Novareto for organizing this sprint - that's always a lot of work. Thank you!!

now playing: "We will grok you" - Queen