5.2 Sprint

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1. Date and location

The sprint will be held October 4-6, 2019 near Jane Street, New York in New York, USA.

The address is 102 North End Avenue, New York, NY 10282 (Conrad New York Downtown), google maps.

Location point of contact: Valentin Gatien-Baron, vgatien-baron@janestreet.com

If you need a formal invitation for visa purposes, contact the person above.

1.1. Arrival Logistics

TBD.

1.2. Attendance

Everyone is welcome from core developers to aspiring contributors. Attending a Mercurial sprint is usually a good way to kickstart your contributions as you'll get a large amount of help available for 3 days.

NOTE: Sponsorship funding is typically limited. Priority will be given to students and volunteers. If you are paid by your employer to work on Mercurial you should expect to pay your own way, since it's part of your business.

2. Sponsors

We need funds to pay for flights and hotels for a few independent contributors.

Recent sprints sponsoring budgets were around $10,000. (<!> review this number)

Sponsoring Company:

• Facebook ($5000)

• Please offer your sponsoring

Sponsor point of contact: durin42 at gmail dot com

3. Meals

Having food delivered for Lunch is usually preferred as it help keeping the timing under control. Dinner is usually taken outside to help people cool off after a day of work.

(Don't forget vegetarian and vegan options)

Meal point of contact: Please offer your service

4. Possible Topics

Important things we want to discuss: (add your own)

4.1. Automatic Source Code Formatting

• Convergence of fix and format-source extension

4.2. Python 3

• Can we start using unicode strings more, at least for things like **kwargs keys and doc. How about allowing ui.write() (etc) with unicode?

• How and when do get rid of the source transformer?
• Get out of Beta state before 2019 ends?

4.3. Rust aka Oxidation

• (gracinet) I'd like to make a short retrospective of one year of Rust development in Mercurial since Stockholm, and start a discussion about what we'll do in the forthcoming year.

4.4. Hosting

• (gracinet) presentation about Heptapod, the friendly fork of GitLab that supports Mercurial

• things we can do to help hosting services supporting mercurial

4.5. hg-git

• What's its current state ? How important is it to the Mercurial project itself ?
• What about the proposal for core inclusion ?
• hgit, it's status and path forward

4.6. Documentation

• Overtime, we developed a lot of nice features and we are in a state where there is relatively less documentations on how to use advanced things like narrow, remotefilelog extensions, try experimental options like zstd. This also applies to nice things which we introduce and enable by default like sparse-revlog, aggressive-merge-deltas etc. There is quite less text on how to work with old versions of repository and how to enable them.

4.7. Add Your Own Topic

• sub topic 1.a

• sub topic 1.b

5. Sprint Notes

General overview (drop the anti spam part): https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/sprint-hgx.y-NOSPAMREMOVETHATLASTPAST ( update URL)

The table below is an attempt to gather written summary of discussion

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