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Monday, February 22, 2010

Twisted 10.0.0pre1 released

It's not going to work, it's not the final release, but I'm very pleased to announce that Twisted 10.0.0pre1 is available for testing.

Download it, test it, play with it and help us make 10.0 the best release ever!

On a side note, this is hopefully the start of a much simpler, more automated release process and maybe even time-based releases.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

From the Strategist

If I don't dump a bunch of stuff that's on my mind, I'll never blog again. Here goes:
  • Launchpad users within Canonical seem to appreciate the Roadmap. Still receive some complaints about not communicating our plans enough, but not sure what to do.
  • Team lead meeting in London went well. Good to see the gang again.
  • The Wellington sprint was amazing. Rarely seen a sprint that's more productive.
  • My favourite result: a fixed, pre-planned annual schedule of sprints, including two annual whole-team sprints. I get to meet with my colleagues and have a life and Canonical saves money all at once.
  • The team leads like the Ready-to-Code and Launchpad Enhancement Proposal process things.
  • Daily builds work is going well. There's a lot of UI bits to consider, and we're trying to get the UI correct before building it. Grates my JFDI nerves, but maybe it's the right approach.
  • Challenged the Launchpad team leads to blog once every two weeks about anything, as long as it's vaguely related to Launchpad. The name of the challenge? Blog like it's 2006.
  • Community Help Rotation sucks and basically no-one really knows what to do about it.
  • I'm cautiously excited about using kanban to track our work-in-progress.
  • Launchpad needs graphs in the Launchpad application. I think all we need is someone to just add one. I don't have the time to do it as part of my day job, and I've got a backlog of other hacking tasks. Could I help you do it instead?
  • I'm going to PyCon.

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