[storm] Sprint invitation

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hey Brad,

> I am curious how this worked out...did anyone blog about it?

Unfortunately not.  We have had some important issues to look
over last week and that took over some of the planned time of
the sprint.

Even then, we did manage to get some things done, and we also
got some of the *unplanned* time for working on Storm.

Specifically, some exciting things were worked on:

- James Henstridge has landed the branch with support for
  auto-reconnection of stores.  We still need support for MySQL,
  but that should be easily moved on in the future.

- There were discussions on the on going work to move Launchpad
  to Storm.  Things are going pretty well in that area so far.

- There's some tentative work being done in a well known open
  source software to migrate it to Storm.  I'll keep the actual
  announcement of that with the maintainers.


> I see a lot of branches published on LaunchPad, but it's not
> clear which ones are likely to make it into the trunk. What are
> the planned future features?

Some major functionalities that may be expected for the near
future of Storm:

- Lazy properties by default: it will be possible to set a
  property to not load until touched (or something semantically
  similar).

- Smarter cache: a cache that will maintain a strong reference
  to a given number of last-looked-for objects.

- Generic finds: this will allow non-object queries through find(),
  opening the doors to get objects out of "GROUP BY" queries as
  well.  This still requires some research.


-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net