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Circus sprint at PyconFR
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:date: 17/09/2012
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:category: tech
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Last Thursday to Sunday, `Pycon France <http://pycon.fr>`_ took place, in
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Paris. It was the opportunity to meet a lot of people and to talk about python
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awesomness in general.
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We had three tracks this year, plus sprints the two first days. We sprinted on
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`Circus <http://circus.io>`_, the process and socket manager we're using
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at Mozilla for some of our setups.
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The project gathered some interest, and we ended up with 5 persons working on
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it. Of course, we spent some time explaining what is Circus, how it had been
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built, a lot of time talking about use-cases and possible improvements, but we
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also managed to add new features.
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Having people wanting to sprint on our projects is exciting because that's
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when making things in the open unleashes its full potential. You can't imagine
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how happy I was to have some friends come and work on this with us :)
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Here is a wrap-up of the sprint:
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Autocompletion on the command-line
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`Remy Hubscher <http://natim.ionyse.com>`_ worked on the command-line
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autocompletion. Now we have a fancy command-line interface which is able to
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aucomplete if you're using bash. It seems that not that much work is needed to
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make it happen on zsh as well :)
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`Have a look at the feature
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<https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus/blob/master/extras/circusctl_bash_completion>`_
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On the same topic, we now have a cool shell for Circus. If you start the
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`circusctl` command without any option, you'll end-up with a cool shell. Thanks
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`Jonathan Dorival <https://github.com/jojax>`_ for the work on this! You can
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have a look at `the pull request
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<https://github.com/mozilla-services/circus/pull/268>`_.
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Future changes to the web ui
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`Rachid Belaid <https://twitter.com/rachbelaid>`_ had a deep look at the source
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code and is much more familiarized to it now than before. We discussed the
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possibility to change the implementation of the web ui, and I'm glad of this.
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Currently, it's done with bottle.py and we want to switch to pyramid.
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He fixed some issues that were in the tracker, so we now can have the age of
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watchers in the webui, for instance.
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Bug and doc fixing
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While reading the source code, we found some inconsistencies and fixed them,
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with `Mathieu Agopian <http://mathieu.agopian.info/>`_. We also tried to
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improve the documentation at different levels.
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Documentation still needs a lot of love, and I'm planning to spend some time on
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this shortly. I've gathered a bunch of feedback on this
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Circus clustering capabilities
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One feature I wanted to work on during this sprint was the clustering abilities
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of Circus. Nick Pellegrino made an internship on this topic at Mozilla so we
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spent some time to review his pull requests.
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A lot of code was written for this so we discussed a bunch of things
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regarding all of this. It took us more time than expected (and I still need to
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spend more time on this to provide appropriate feedback), but it allowed us to
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have a starting-point about what this clustering thing could be.
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Remy wrote `a good summary about our brainstorming
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<http://tech.novapost.fr/circus-clustering-management-en.html>`_ so I'll not do
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it again here, but feel free to contact us if you have ideas on this, they're
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very welcome!
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Project management
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We've had some inquiries telling us that's not as easy as it should to get
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started with the Circus project. Some of the reasons are that we don't
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have any release schedule, and that the documentation is hairy enough to lost
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people, at some point :)
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That's something we'll try to fix soon :)
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PyconFR was a very enjoyable event. I'm looking forward to meet the community
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again and discuss how Circus can evolve in ways that are interesting to
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everyone.
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Tarek and me are going to `Pycon ireland <http://python.ie/pycon/2012/>`_, feel
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free to reach us if you're going there, we'll be happy to meet and enjoy beers!
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