Pradhvan

Last weekend I attended EuroPython's virtual sprints. Though this was my second year of attending the virtual sprints I was still a bit overwhelmed. This year not only I would have been sprinting for other projects but I would be helping other folks contribute to ScanAPI. As I had been recently added to the core team, I thought it would be a good chance for me to dive deep into the codebase while helping others at the sprints.

Unlike last year where discord was the communication channel for the sprints, this year folks at EuroPython had a matrix server. Each sprint project had its channel integrated with Jitsi to help pair program or just have a hallway-like experience.

Similar to last year sprints were planned for the whole weekend with multiple opening/closing sessions to support different timezones. I liked that they kept this from last year because other folks from ScanAPI are from Brazil and to them, the first opening session which was at 9 AM CEST or 12:30 PM IST would be something like 4:30 in the morning. This gap between multiple openings also gave me some time to just visit other projects and contribute. At least that is what I thought initially and moved the sprints timings for ScanAPI to the second day.

On the first day of the sprints, I wasn't expecting that I had to be present at the opening since we had planned the sprints for the other day. But to my surprise got an invite for the opening session to present for ScanAPI as I was anyway online. So I mostly talked about what the project is, how to run the project locally and how you can pick up the issues in the opening.

After the opening since I did not see much activity in the ScanAPI channel right away, I hopped on to EuroPython's Website sprint channel where Raquel and Francesco(web lead for the project) was already present. I had a really fun time talking to them.

By the end of the day, ScanAPI had three new issues, 4 Pull Request that was to be reviewed, 2 got merged and one contribution to the wiki on how to set up the project on windows without WSL in it.

The second day was a bit slow in general where I had initially planned the sprints. Since we had very little activity on the second day, I did wrap up early after addressing the previous day's Pull Requests. Since there was only one person active on the channel post-lunch, the conversation at the end drifted to bread baking which to me seems a really fun thing to try in your free time.

In the end, it was a weekend well-spent.