Europython 2015 sprints

Attendees

Brianna (pfctdayelise) - helping others/annotating issues
Raphael (hackebrot) - cookiecutter template for pytest plugins
Florian (The Compiler) - helping pylint remove "pytest"
Floris (flub/@flubdevork) - PRs
Andreas (pelme/@andreaspelme) - pytest-django issues
Rob - converting pyglet to use pytest
Michael -
Hans -
Jakub - #683
Jan #1 - #751
Alexander - learning to use pytest
Christian - deprecating gentest/lack of setuptools issue
Omar - PyCharm freezing issue
Jan #2 - #759
Maarten - deprecating gentest/lack of setuptools issue. pull request #881 merged.
Lisa - #714
Maarten Missing example test #753, no fix yet added some comments on issue #753 and pull request #887 for small change.
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If you see a suitable looking issue or have a pet bug you'd like fixed, add it here. If you want to work on one of these, add your name after it.

Review/merge existing PRs
Vendor pluggy/discuss what's wanted for 2.8 release
evaluate numpy.testing output with pytest
Create a pytest plugin for kivy (Raphael)
Is there a page that lists maintainers of different plugins, which ones need maintainers?
Add Training page to website
Generate flow diagram of pytest hook functions
Blog setup (Andreas)
#138 - add better support for chained assertions (available since python 3.4)
#288 - make a "testresult" fixture available as a plugin or core
#344 - add ability to pass command line options to doctests, when executing doctests
#527 - Show reason for skips in verbose mode on the terminal
#578 - UnicodeDecodeError masks SyntaxError on discovery
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'Easy' and 'task' issues are good to look at if you are contributing the first time!

There are quite a few issues relating to running of doctests in case you have experience there.

A good place to look for easier bugs may be the issue trackers of pytest plugins!