MoPy/AllSnakes

When

During the All-hands meeting - location/time to be defined

Who

• Tarek
• Kumar McMillan
• Jeff Hammel
• jbalogh
• Erik Rose

What

Topics folks are interested in:

• Packaging
• Improving Mozilla's use of Python (particularly wrt m-c and build tools)
• Informing Mozilla of good (and bad) python patterns

Lightning talks

• pypi2rpm (tarek)
• future of packaging in Python 3.3 (tarek)
• Fudging it With Mock Objects (Kumar)
• My first C extension (jbalogh)
• nose-progressive testrunner (ErikRose)
• 2 of my wacky language improvement ideas (ErikRose)
• Django testing patterns: lessons learned from SUMO (ErikRose)
  • Note to self: instantiation helpers, comparator helpers, patching settings
• RDAPI: an api documentation and front end developed for Raindrop and later used in F1
  • A demo of how it works, and thoughts on how to make it better