[Grok-dev] here's a crazy thought: a grok sprint?

[Christian Klinger]

Hi again,

JW you also have already some plans for location/organistaion?

Christian

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a crazy thought: what about having a Grok sprint?
>
> I must be mad thinking this would be at all usefull...?
>
> My idea would be to gather the selection of small changes we did since
> the last official release, clean up groktoolkit, release it, bring the
> current grok website down and launch a small new website (kinda like a
> "readthedocs" thing) explaining the current status etc.
>
> Why would I want to suggest this?
>
> The reasons are twofold:
>
> * It would be fun I think, to meet up with the few people that are still
> using Grok or some of its legacy.
>
> * The current website and everything give a highly unfinished and
> abandoned feel. This in fact is not far from the truth ;) but I like the
> idea to clean things up and explain the state of the project.
>
> To be clear:
>
> * At my work, we're still using Grok. And thus ZTK. And there's no plan
> to move away from it any time soon. For us, the underpinnings of our
> application still serve us well for now.
>
> * My idea for this sprint is explicitly low-ambition. Of course I'm
> every now and then fantasizing about porting Grok to Python 3, now that
> a lot of ZTK packages are supposed to run on Python 3. And we could of
> course spend time on such, or completely different, ideas if there's any
> common ground for it.
>
> Ok, let the laughing begin... I **am** being silly here, right..? ;)
>
> Or does anyone actually like the idea..?
>
> regards, jw