Summary of Leysin Sprint (and before) 
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- introduced newcomers to the project to the PyPy code base 
  and development process.  We gave introductions to the 
  basic functioning and the structure of the code base. 
  For getting everybody into PyPy, we then mainly ran tests 
  and fixed various bugs and added small things. 

- we ran some of the CPython's regression tests against PyPy 
  and enhanced the testing tool to be able to directly 
  support running such tests. 

- merged the typeunwrap-branch back into the trunk 
  (which allows for type specific unwraps in favour 
  of deprecated generic unwraps). 

- We started the DFKI dialogue, documented action items 
  and time plan for the first two weeks of February 
  (mostly related to coordination and EU communication 
  issues). We came up with a model for physical persons 
  resp. sprint attendants to get 100% funding. 

- Bea interviewed almost all of the sprint participants 
  to find out about their expectations, dissemination 
  and more general ideas about the PyPy project and 
  where it should go in the future. Evaluation forms 
  have been send out to various people. 

- Planning for new and improved infrastructure, including 
  subversion ("newrepolayout") and issue tracker decisions. 

- We fixed some long standing translator issues and 
  tried to better understand which problems are remaining. 

- We started to work on old-style classes (implemented 
  at application level with new-style classes)

- We have a better bootstrap and a rather complete exception
  hierarchy now (generated from application level to interpreter 
  level).  This was done with a tool (to be completed) that is 
  basically capable of translating applevel modules to interplevel 
  (which are then completly unreadable). 
 
- we reorganized and cleaned up our base python module
  library  which is now in dist/lib-python-2.3.4 whereas
  our overrides and modifications are in dist/pypy/lib. 

- The applevel file class was improved but is currently 
  not used by default (both for slowness and lack of speed). 

- we may have an itertools implementation (Adrien?). 

- Marcus Denker gave a nice talk about Squeak and Croquet 
  which we discussed (including technical details of 
  the continuation based Seaside Framework and 
  possible future cooperation). 


Tasks for after the Leysin Sprint
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- lots of management/coordination tasks are already 
  summarized by Bea in specific documents in svn/pypy/funding. 

other than that here is a technical brainstorming about
upcoming issues and tasks: 

- Be on #pypy IRC (on freenode) to continously discuss 
  the below issues and (re-)assign tasks (and help non-partners 
  to be able to contribute) 

- (Samuele, Christian) finish old-style classes (and their tests) 
  and integrate them into PyPy (so that by default bare class 
  statements mean old-style classes). 

- (Armin, Christian) implement slots and coerce  

- (Christian, ...) prepare a nice gentinterp-tool for generating 
  interp-level modules out of application level ones. Also allow
  to build inline interp-level classes from application ones. 

- (Anders, ...) fix pow() and generally complete builtins, reload() etc.pp. 

- (Holger, ...) complete the lib-python2.3.4/test runner to support more 
  styles of testing (doctests mainly). 

- (Samuele, Christian) provide the "get-rid-of-unused-variables" algorithms
  directly at the flowgraph level (without requiring the annotator) 

- (Armin, Christian) refactor and make more code reusable from the 
  various Gen* backends. 

- (Holger) find a way to run the tests (some of which need to be fixed) 
  from pypy/lib (which overrides ...) 

- (Armin, Holger) find a way to run automated tests on many platforms 

- (Armin, Christian) fix and cleanup pypy/module resp. the mixin of
  interplevel/applevel code, reduce magic and only good magic ... 

- install an IRC-bot that logs stuff on #pypy (for ultimate
  control of whats going on) 

- (Samuele, Laura) enumerate all missing or incomplete 
  builtin types, functions and modules. (preferably 
  as a web page :-) 

- (Bea will call for a common day, but let's not wait for Bea) 
  consolidate/improve and add documentation about the current state 
  of PyPy affairs (especially regarding its technical implementation). 
  And actually remove outdated documentation. 

- (Holger, pypy-dev) come up with and discuss a release scheme for PyPy 

- (Bea will dispatch) Write a good tutorial. 

- (Samuele, Christian) resolve platform problems (regarding longs 
  and ints and tests and 32/64 bits ...), including arithmetic 
  how to do bit-limited arithmetic at interpreter level? 

- (Logilab?) we need a parser/compiler, and we especially want to 
  cleanly provide a hook to allow custom 
  compilation/code objects/frame objects/bytecode implementations. 

- (Armin, Samuele) translation: finish "filling the caches", revisit
  MultiMethods with respect to that and other issues. 

- make GenC() use more of the annotation (currently nada) 
 
- (Samuele) improve and further fix the annotator (never ending task) 

- explore the through-java path 

- (Jacob, holger, ...) generate all kinds of reports about various 
  aspects of developing 

- (Christian) play a bit with generating app- or interplevel 
  from C-sources  

- (Bea and Jacob driving) prepare and improve sprints with 
  respect to giving tutorials, welcoming and integrating newcomers 

- be prepared to make a list of tasks suitable 
  for sprint attendees (and try to find out before
  about the according experience levels)