Based on the small conversation that occurred in the 5.0 status announcement, I thought it would be good to start a separate conversation about it.
Immediate questions that come to mind for me:
Who would like to (co-)lead it? I have never been to let alone run a sprint, but happy to help where I can as I see it as a way to contribute back.
What platform should we use? (Discord feels like the natural option as we have a presence there, gather town was also suggested which would be a good option as well)
When? I could see it being a function that is available most of the time but with some times of the year when we run more specific events to get more people involved (e.g. a 24 hour hackathon-style sprint)
Other than Django itself anyone have any projects that they want help with?
I know @pauloxnet was interested in hosting a physical version of this. And the Djangonaut Space organizers would likely try to have someone there because this will dovetail nicely with a broader initiative we have to help interest and motivate folks to contribute to the community. I can’t commit to helping organize this though.
I’ve got nothing here. Discourse wanted a bullet point.
It could coincide with the sprints of DjangoCon US (Oct) or DjangoCon Africa (Nov). Or both.
I’d be happy to help lead folks for working on the debug toolbar. There are some bugs and new issues that could we could use help with.
I’m interested! (cc @shangxiao think you might be too!)
Very happy to help (attend/promote/encourage but maybe not lead)
Agree that Discord makes sense, and then if it doesn’t work as well as we’d like we can try something else
24 hour event is a nice idea. I like that it covers all time-zones and people could join and leave when they like. Perhaps best to be maintainer driven as to what day makes sense (e.g. maybe Django would be better outside the release period but would check with the fellows)
I’m also interested, and would be happy run an accessibility focused team, especially if I can wrangle @thibaudcolas and/or @sabderemane into helping.
As Sarah says I’m also a bit concerned about the timing of doing this right now as we’re past code freeze for 5.0, would be interested to get the input of @felixxm and @nessita on this.
I am in no rush to do something right now, rather I would see it as beneficial to take our time (but not too much so nothing happens) to put in place documentation & processes that would make it fairly easy to host an online sprint in future.
For example, if Discord does work out for us, investing automation around a bot to create relevant channels for a period and then shut them down afterwards, having documentation on what’s expected/required from an organiser etc.
We did this at Djangocon Europe for django-cms and it worked really well with a mix between people in Edinburgh and people remote.
I’m always interested in getting involved. Always struggle to pick up django tickets, but can pick up djangoproject.com bits or help out if people need support or extra people on things.
A Discord channel makes most sense for discussion as there’s lots of the community there. It was also very useful for us to have visibility of what everyone was working on. Github project boards were good for this. But won’t work so well for django due to the disconnect of tickets. Maybe another place for a kanban board?
A 24 hour event would work well for me. Working around my kids generally means I’m coding at all sorts of hours of the day.
If anybody is interested, django-sql-explorer could do with some attention. I’ve also been meaning to create the successor to django-bleach using the nh3 library. I’ve not got far with django-nh3 yet though. And there’s also a new project to get building to have a configurable Rich Text Editor interface with a django-cms v4 application so we don’t enforce the javascript editor.
Tom has already said what I had in mind, happy to help on the accessibility focused team.
I agree with what was already said for the timing, when it should be and the platform to use. I’m also happy to help, I’m not sure to be able to lead too but I will spread the word
I suppose the only thing we’ll be missing is the gong? Haha
If we get a skeleton of django.social going and a list of planned features, maybe we could co-host a Hacktober sprint on the 14th (or some day in mid-October). I also have no idea how it would work, but it would give us 3 weeks to figure it out.
Oct 19th and 20th (Thu and Fri) are sprint days for DjangoCon US. There’s already the Testathon for the Friday. I’m happy to throw a slide in our DjangoCon US loudswarm area to advertise a virtual sprint, but my deadline to get that in is Sept 25. cc: @nanorepublica
