[darcs-users] report from darcs hacking sprint #1

[Don Stewart]

dagit:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:27 PM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> > Yay!  It looks like good progress for darcs!
> >
> > Thanks everybody, and thanks to kowey for organizing, cheerleading,
> > and writing up the results.
> >
> > What about kowey's automatic benchmarking and zookeeping scripts --
> > weren't those sprint material?  I'm pretty excited about that project
> > -- automatic benchmarking and zookeeping.
> 
> We had lots of ideas before the sprint, but we found that once we were
> at the sprint people had energy to tackle certain problems -- not
> always the originally intended tasks.

This is typical of hackathons, in my experience. As people get to know
the code better, they're better able to predict what they can actually
achieve on that code, during a 2 day sprint.

More sprints are called for :-)

-- Don