Pythonlings Community Dev Sprint — August 2026 tracker

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Sprint tracker

This is the non-claimable status tracker for the Pythonlings Community Dev Sprint — August 22–23, 2026 (Asia/Colombo). Start in the sprint Discussion for setup, questions, and coordination.

Working agreement

• Claimable issues are intentionally unassigned. A coordination note is welcome, but it is not a reservation; for in-repository work, the first PR that satisfies every acceptance criterion and verification requirement is considered for merge.
• External submissions require a preflight comment, upstream maintainer approval, and only one human-authored submission to each upstream repository.
• This backlog does not create a GitHub Project, change code, or promise a release.

Verified baseline

• Clean current-tree baseline recorded on 2026-08-09: python -m pytest -q → 147 passed.

Beginner track

• docs: refresh release, roadmap, and contributor references #38 docs: refresh release, roadmap, and contributor references
• docs: add a worked curriculum contribution guide #39 docs: add a worked curriculum contribution guide
• community: add structured bug, feature, and curriculum issue forms #40 community: add structured bug, feature, and curriculum issue forms
• Draft the Pythonlings v0.4.1 community launch kit #11 draft the Pythonlings v0.4.1 community launch kit

Curriculum track

• curriculum: materialize readable solutions for variables and strings #48 materialize readable solutions for variables and strings
• curriculum: materialize readable solutions for conditionals and loops #49 materialize readable solutions for conditionals and loops
• curriculum: materialize readable solutions for functions and lists #50 materialize readable solutions for functions and lists
• curriculum: materialize readable solutions for tuples and dictionaries #51 materialize readable solutions for tuples and dictionaries

Reliability and product track

• ci: test the supported Python 3.9 and 3.10 runtimes #41 CI: test the supported Python 3.9 and 3.10 runtimes
• fix: make pythonlings update prefer the current workspace #42 make pythonlings update prefer the current workspace
• fix: preserve existing workspace .gitignore entries #43 preserve existing workspace .gitignore entries
• fix: return friendly errors for malformed info.toml files #44 return friendly errors for malformed info.toml files
• fix: recover progress from a last-known-good state backup #45 recover progress from a last-known-good state backup
• feat: add pythonlings doctor diagnostics #46 add pythonlings doctor diagnostics
• fix: confirm F2 resets before discarding learner edits #47 confirm F2 resets before discarding learner edits

Discovery research and outreach track

• Research awesome-python eligibility and a future submission path #8 research awesome-python eligibility and a future submission path
• Submit Pythonlings to eligible CLI/TUI directories #9 submit Pythonlings to eligible CLI/TUI directories
• Research the current Rustlings ecosystem listing path #10 research the current Rustlings ecosystem listing path

Related post-sprint work

• Product-hardening umbrella #4 remains the long-lived product-hardening umbrella.
• Curriculum: gently ramp the first exercises of each topic #17 remains a post-sprint curriculum backlog item and is deliberately outside this milestone.

Every checked box here should correspond to an issue close after its own acceptance criteria and verification are satisfied.

Verified QA backlog

Validated on current dev at e1d4dae37234b75124bd6a53f06734296ebbbdee on 2026-08-19. The baseline passed 190 tests, bundled-curriculum verification, strict documentation validation, and clean editable and installed-wheel checks on Python 3.9 through 3.13.

CLI and core

• cli: reject init --force at the curriculum source #71 cli: reject init --force at the curriculum source
• core: contain invalid UTF-8 exercise files in the runner #72 core: contain invalid UTF-8 exercise files in the runner
• cli: keep status output usable under ASCII locales #73 cli: keep status output usable under ASCII locales

TUI

• tui: persist a revert to the originally loaded exercise text #74 tui: persist a revert to the originally loaded exercise text
• tui: ignore stale verification results from older edits #75 tui: ignore stale verification results from older edits
• tui: keep key bindings discoverable in narrow terminals #79 tui: keep key bindings discoverable in narrow terminals

Curriculum

• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to variables checks #80 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to variables checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 1 of 3) #81 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 1 of 3)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 2 of 3) #82 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 2 of 3)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 3 of 3) #83 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functions checks (batch 3 of 3)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to classes checks (batch 1 of 2) #84 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to classes checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to classes checks (batch 2 of 2) #85 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to classes checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functional checks (batch 1 of 2) #86 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functional checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functional checks (batch 2 of 2) #87 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to functional checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to decorators checks (batch 1 of 2) #88 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to decorators checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to decorators checks (batch 2 of 2) #89 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to decorators checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to generators checks (batch 1 of 2) #90 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to generators checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to generators checks (batch 2 of 2) #91 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to generators checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to context managers checks #92 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to context managers checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to dataclasses checks #93 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to dataclasses checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to regex checks #94 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to regex checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to testing checks #95 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to testing checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 1 of 4) #96 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 1 of 4)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 2 of 4) #97 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 2 of 4)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 3 of 4) #98 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 3 of 4)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 4 of 4) #99 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to recursion checks (batch 4 of 4)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to itertools checks #100 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to itertools checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to JSON checks (batch 1 of 2) #101 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to JSON checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to JSON checks (batch 2 of 2) #102 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to JSON checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to datetime checks (batch 1 of 2) #103 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to datetime checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to datetime checks (batch 2 of 2) #104 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to datetime checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to enums checks #105 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to enums checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to pathlib checks #106 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to pathlib checks
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to advanced OOP checks (batch 1 of 2) #107 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to advanced OOP checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to advanced OOP checks (batch 2 of 2) #108 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to advanced OOP checks (batch 2 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to async checks (batch 1 of 2) #109 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to async checks (batch 1 of 2)
• curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to async checks (batch 2 of 2) #110 curriculum: add actionable assertion messages to async checks (batch 2 of 2)

Documentation

• docs: preserve code structure in generated offline references #76 docs: preserve code structure in generated offline references
• docs: make bundled reference regeneration version-reproducible #77 docs: make bundled reference regeneration version-reproducible
• docs: clarify that automatic checks require the built-in editor #78 docs: clarify that automatic checks require the built-in editor

Packaging

No new packaging issue qualified. The sdist, wheel contents, and installed-wheel command flow passed on every supported Python version.

CI

No additional CI issue qualified from this audit. The supported-version matrix itself passed on Python 3.9 through 3.13.

The verified QA expansion adds 40 claimable issues: 31 curriculum, three CLI and core, three TUI, and three documentation issues.

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🔗 Related PRs

#18 - docs: 0.3.0 adoption roadmap + contributor guide [closed]
#27 - Release v0.3.1 — finish pythonlings rename + --version fix [merged]
#31 - feat: overall progress, completion celebration, first-launch welcome (#14, #15, #16) [merged]
#66 - release: promote v0.4.2 to main [merged]
#70 - Promote dev to main [open]

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