back home from pycon

Posted on March 19, 2008
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made it back home yesterday with only a 45 minute delay after nearly getting stuck in san antonio because of bad weather in austin.

i hung out in the bazaar/olpc sprint room monday. i’m pretty new to bazaar and wasn’t really able to contribute anything but i spent the time familiarizing myself with the code and trying out the bzr-svn plugin to evaluate whether we’d be able to use it at work. i listened to mark hammond and ian clatworthy discuss bazaar internals and mark’s strategy for developing tortoisebzr.

tummy.com was very generous and ordered pizza for all of the sprinters (35 pizzas for 300 people).

in the airport and on the plane yesterday i spent more time digging around the bazaar code. its quite readable and very well organized into layers where modules can be swapped out at various layers to change the behavior. the bzr-loom plugin adds quilt-like functionality in bazaar. looking around i saw that while its functional it doesn’t have the ability to change a loomified bazaar branch into a regular bazaar branch. it seems straightforward to add this so i started working on it on the plane. i got a crude version working which just discards any changes in threads but ran into some locking issues and wasn’t able to work them out before the battery died on my laptop. i’ll write more about that once i have more time to look at it.

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