[Python-Dev] Fwd: survey about the use of agile practices

2006-12-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
Anyone?

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From: Selene Uras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Dec 24, 2006 9:24 AM
Subject: survey about the use of agile practices
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Dear project manager/developer
 I am conducting at the University of Cagliari, under the supervision of
 prof. Michele Marchesi, a survey about the use of agile practices in
 open source successful projects.
 I would really appreciate if you can devote 5 mins. of your time,
 answering
 the following questionnaire directly in the "Reply" mail to me.
 Thanking in advance,

Selene Uras



1. Project management:
   - Do you use fixed (time-boxed) iterations? Y/N How many days do
they last? ___
   - Do you plan development by gathering a list of features, and then
assign
  them to an iteration? Y/N Since when? Since the start of the
project / Since ___ years.
   - Are users actively involved in requirements gathering and in
project management? Y/N

2. Testing:
   - Has the project an automatic unit test suite? Y/N Which one?
___
   - If Yes, what is the percentage of code covered by tests? ___ %
   - Do you use automatic acceptance tests? Y/N
   - Since when have you been using automatic tests? Since the start of
the project / Since ___ years.

3. Refactoring:
   - Do you practice explicit code refactoring? Y/N
   - What is the percentage of developing effort for refactoring? ___%
   - Since when have you been using refactoring? Since the start of the
project / Since ___ years.

4. Integration and releases:
   - How long does it take to produce the executable code starting from
source code? 
   - Do you have a "working version" of the code, which is often
updated by
  developers who add their code and run tests? Y/N

5. General:
   - Can you mention some other agile practices you are using in the
project?
  For each of them, since when has it been used?
  - Practice: __ Used since: __
  - Practice: __ Used since: __
  - 


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Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: survey about the use of agile practices

2006-12-24 Thread Aahz
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Anyone?

It was discarded as probable spam by me due to the lack of a valid "To:"
line.  Do you have any particular reason for believing that it's real?
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Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: survey about the use of agile practices

2006-12-24 Thread Samuele Pedroni
Aahz wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>   
>> Anyone?
>> 
>
> It was discarded as probable spam by me due to the lack of a valid "To:"
> line.  Do you have any particular reason for believing that it's real?
>   
http://agile.diee.unica.it/uras.html (it's in italian)

seems to make this credible. FWIW.
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[Python-Dev] PropertyType

2006-12-24 Thread Michael Foord
Hello all,

Could / should 'PropertyType' be added to the types module ?


Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml


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Re: [Python-Dev] PropertyType

2006-12-24 Thread skip

Michael> Could / should 'PropertyType' be added to the types module ?

I thought the types module was deprecated.

Skip
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Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: survey about the use of agile practices

2006-12-24 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 12/24/06, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> It was discarded as probable spam by me due to the lack of a valid "To:"
> line.  Do you have any particular reason for believing that it's real?

Even apart from the website that Samuele found, the content sounded
genuine. Just not something I feel like dealing with (too many
surveys).

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Re: [Python-Dev] PropertyType

2006-12-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
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On Dec 24, 2006, at 11:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> Michael> Could / should 'PropertyType' be added to the types  
> module ?
>
> I thought the types module was deprecated.

Except that there are some types you can't (easily) get any other way.

- -Barry

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Re: [Python-Dev] PropertyType

2006-12-24 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Michael Foord]
> Could / should 'PropertyType' be added to the types module ?

PropertyType = property


Yawn,

Raymond
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