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The jQuery UI sprint this last weekend was great. In all we had over 35 participants and got a lot of good stuff done.

We worked on demos to showcase all the UI plugins, opened and closed a bunch of tickets, reviewed and updated the documentation, and continued writing unit tests for each UI plugin. We also had some crucial discussions about API consistency, and simplified some of the code dependencies.

We’re not quite ready for the final 1.5 release, but this sprint was a great push toward that goal. I was pleased to see that we attracted some new contributers. They made a real contribution, and we were happy to have some fresh perspective on how we’re doing, and how we can do better. They key now is to keep this good momentum going.

Paul will be doing a more complete summary post on the jQuery blog later today. But I wanted to at least mention here: Thanks to all who made this sprint a success.

I announced the first jQuery UI Sprint on the jQuery blog last Friday. It will take place all day tomorrow and Saturday. Here’s a summary:

The jQuery UI Team is pleased to announce its first Worldwide Sprint, to take place next Friday and Saturday, March 14-15, 2008. Two full days of testing, fixes, documentation, and general getting-stuff-done. Our goal is to get the jQuery UI 1.5 release (alpha, beta) ready for final, and we invite any and all to help. Whether you have an hour, or an afternoon, come and run really fast with us.

I’m really excited about this event. We’ll have a few team members there to help facilitate, and a lot of new contributors as well. So far there are 22 people signed up to participate. If you want to give UI some love, add your name to the list, even if you can’t be there the whole time. We’ve got some exciting stuff planned. See you tomorrow.