We've had a fairly enjoyable and productive first day in our little hidden room at EuroPython in Berlin ! Below are some noticeable things we've worked on and discussed about.
First, we discussed and agreed that while we should at some point cut the cord to the logilab.common package, it will take some time notably because of the usage logilab.common.configuration which would be somewhat costly to replace (and is working pretty well). There are some small steps we should do but basically we should mostly get back some pylint/astroid specific things from logilab.common to astroid or pylint. This should be partly done during the sprint, and remaining work will go to tickets in the tracker.
We also discussed about release management. The point is that we should release more often, so every pylint maintainers should be able to do that easily. Sylvain will write some document about the release procedure and ensure access are granted to the pylint and astroid projects on pypi. We shall release pylint 1.3 / astroid 1.2 soon, and those releases branches will be the last one supporting python < 2.7.
During this first day, we also had the opportunity to meet Carl Crowder, the guy behind http://landscape.io, as well as David Halter which is building the Jedi completion library (https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi). Landscape.io runs pylint on thousands of projects, and it would be nice if we could test beta release on some part of this panel. On the other hand, there are probably many code to share with the Jedi library like the parser and ast generation, as well as a static inference engine. That deserves a sprint on his own though, so we agreed that a nice first step would be to build a common library for import resolution without relying on the python interpreter for that, while handling most of the python dark import features like zip/egg import, .pth files and so one. Indeed that may be two nice future collaborations!
Last but not least, we got some actual work done:
- Michal Novikowsky from Intel in Poland joined us to work on the ability to run pylint in different processes so it may drastically improve performance on multiple cores box.
- Torsten did continue some work on various improvements of the functionnal test framework.
- Sylvain did merge logilab.common.modutils module into astroid as it's mostly driven by astroid and pylint needs. Also fixed the annoying namespace package crash.
- Claudiu keep up the good work he does daily at improving and fixing pylint :)