PyPy Development: PyPy Winter Sprint Feb 4-9 in Düsseldorf

 PyPy Sprint February 4th-9th 2019 in Düsseldorf

The next PyPy sprint will be held in the Computer Science department of Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf from the 4th to the 9st of February 2019 (nine years after the last sprint there). This is a fully public sprint, everyone is welcome to join us.

Topics and goals

• improve Python 3.6 support
• discuss benchmarking situation
• progress on utf-8 branches
• cpyext performance and completeness
• packaging: are we ready to upload to PyPI?
• • issue 2617  - we expose too many functions from lib-pypy.so
  • multilinux2010 - will it solve our build issues?
  • formulate an ABI name and upgrade policy

• memoryview(ctypes.Structure) does not create the correct format string
• discussing the state and future of PyPy and the wider Python ecosystem

Location

The sprint will take place in a seminar room of the computer science department.  It is in the building 25.12 of the university campus, second floor. Travel instructions
 

Exact times

Work days: starting February 4th (~morning), ending February 9th (~afternoon). The break day will probably be Thursday.

Registration

Please register by Mercurial::
https://ift.tt/1qsxbv5

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/src/extradoc/sprintinfo/ddorf2019/people.txt

or on the pypy-dev mailing list if you do not yet have check-in rights:
 

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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