The flight part of the journey was pretty nice, the weather was beautiful (I could clearly see Prague’s main sights from 11km height). But it was the weekend when the Piccadilly line didn’t operate at Heathrow, so it took a while to get to the replacement buses and figure out where I could buy a ticket. All in all it took around 3 hours to get from the airport to the hotel, which was a really nice place (high speed internet was around 30k/s, but that was enough for IRC and browsing the web).

On Monday morning I finally met Robert at the breakfast, and got introduced to Aaron, Ian, John and Martin. We went together to Canonical’s office in the Millbank Tower (wow, what an awsome view from the 27th floor!). Many people have joined us during the day, and also Mark gave us a visit. We began to discuss the schedule and topics for the sprint – of course everything was about performance. On the first 3 days all operations were analyzed separately in smaller groups, which was a great opportunity for me to get familiar with the interns of Bazaar (until now I didn’t really care about them, because I was using the API only).

On the remaining days I got into hacking on Olive a bit, because there were several bugs to fix, and some major features to implement. Here’s a list about what I’ve accomplished during the sprint:

• Fixed branch initialization on Windows.
• Put Annotate into the context menu.
• More columns were added for detailed information about files (currently shows: name, status, size and time of last modification).
• File list is sortable by the various columns.
• Bookmarked locations are added to the Get and Checkout history by default.
• Branch -> Status working again.
• On the Get and Checkout dialogs the branch won’t be polled while typing (after losing focus instead).
• Revisions get displayed immediately in the Revision Browser (doesn’t lock the main loop).
• Files are loaded into the file list likewise.
• Brand new location bar.
• Browsing remote branches is possible.
• You can see the state of the inventory at a given revision (History mode).

I plan to blog about the two latest features in a separate post, because they are really neat and deserve it.

It was a pleasure to meet so many great people during the week:

• Some of them I’ve met before: David, Jelmer, Matthew, Robert, Steve, Vincent and Wouter.
• Bazaar folks I haven’t met before: Aaron, Andrew, Ian, John, Martin and Michael.
• SoC students for Bazaar: Alexander, Bogdano and Klaus.
• Canonical folks: Celso, Chris, Claire, Colin, Dave, Jane, Karl, Kiko, Malcolm, Mark, Matt (sorry I couldn’t remember all names).

Finally the group photo of the Bazaar Sprint attendees:

Standing: Alexander Haro, Wouter van Heyst, Bogdano Arendartchuk, Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij, Vincent Ladeuil, Ian Clatworthy, Klaus Hartke.

Sitting: Aaron Bentley, John Arbash Meinel, Martin Pool, Szilveszter Farkas.

See all of you soon! :)