[Grok-dev] a PyCon sprint for Grok?

[Peter Bengtsson]

I'm keen. I'm far from an expert but if there's an opportunity I'd
love to try to help.

On 11/03/2008, Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon at rhodesmill.org> wrote:
> I apologize for how late I am asking this question, but I've been busy
>  writing presentations and such. :-)
>
>  Where should we fit Grok into the PyCon constellation of sprints next
>  week?  "Grok" appears nowhere on the Sprint page:
>
>    http://us.pycon.org/2008/sprints/projects/
>
>  I would love to lead a sprint based on my PyCon presentation, which
>  will be on Saturday, and will be about how cool the Zope object
>  framework is, and how easy Grok makes it to create and use adapters.
>  It is annoying that I'll have to say:
>
>   - "Adapters are neat!"
>   - "An adapter framework is even better!"
>   - "Zope gives you one!"
>   - "Grok makes it easy to use!"
>   - "And, oh, yeah, you can only grok things if you're willing to wait
>      for this big web framework to "import", which will make your shell
>      script that uses adapters take several seconds.  Oh, well."
>
>  I'd love to be able to finish my presentation, instead, with:
>
>   - "And if you want to use Grok adapter coolness outside of the web
>      framework, then come to my sprint and we'll finish up grokcore
>      (is that what it was going to be called?) that splits the
>      cool-grokking-abilities of Grok from the expense of importing all
>      the machinery behind Views and XML and everything else."
>
>  Or something like that.  Two other possible alternate topics, if
>  splitting out grokcore is too big a job for sprinters, or if PvW still
>  wants to implement that on his own instead of having some sprinters
>  foul it up, are:
>
>   - Looking at ways that zope.interface and zope.component could be
>     made to import and run faster.  I've noticed that my commands that
>     use them take several tenths of a second just to start up, and it
>     would be neat to make them leaner so that everyone could use them
>     at much less cost.
>
>   - Doing the design and a first implementation of that neat adapt()
>     method that I proposed, and got grudgingly accepted by Jim Fulton,
>     late last year on the Zope mailing list.  That could be a really
>     cool topic for a sprint, since people wouldn't have to know much
>     about Zope, since it would basically just be repackaging existing
>     functionality in a much improved interface.
>
>  It would be neat if, on the sprint page, Grok's name appeared
>  alongside things like Django and Turbogears as a framework that's
>  serious enough to deserve its own sprint.
>
>  On the other hand, the PyCon web site indicates they really wanted the
>  sprints defined by the start of registration - more than a month ago,
>  in other words! - so maybe they wouldn't appreciate a late addition?
>
>  In which case, if we Grok fans wanted to join an existing sprint, what
>  would we join?  I note that Tres and Chris are running a WSGI-fication
>  sprint for web frameworks; are there any aspects of Grok WSGI-fication
>  that are left to be completed?
>
>  *Any* guidance you guys can offer me at this point is appreciated!
>  This will be my first PyCon and it would be neat if it could benefit
>  Grok.
>
>
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>  Brandon Craig Rhodes   brandon at rhodesmill.org   http://rhodesmill.org/brandon
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