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+rss = "GSoC 2020: Second Check-In"
+date = Date(2020, 6, 15)
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+@def tags = ["pip", "gsoc"]
+
+# Second Check-In
+
+Hi everyone and may the odds ever in your favor, especially during this
+tough time!
+
+## What did I do last week?
+
+Not as much I wished, apparently (-:
+
+* Finalizing {{pip 8411 "the refactoring patch"}}
+  of `operations.prepare.prepare_linked_requirement`
+* {{pip 8423 "Nitpicking some logging calls"}}.  This (as well as the next one)
+  was to fill up the time my brain not being as productive as I want it to XD
+* {{pip 8423 "Beginning to migrate"}} from `%`- to `{}`-style logging.
+  The amount of tests failing due to this was way beyond my imagination,
+  but I got functional tests for `pip install` and unit tests passing now!
+* {{pip 8442 "Mocking up a working partial wheel download during
+  dependency resolution"}} for [the new resolver][].
+
+## Did I get stuck anywhere?
+
+Yes, of course!  {{pip 8320 "Parallel maps"}} are still stalling
+as well as other small PRs listed above.  The failure related to
+`logging` are still making me pulling my hair out and the proof of
+concept for partial wheel downloading is too ugly even for a PoC.
+I imagine that I will have a lot of clean up to do this week (yay!).
+
+## What is coming up next?
+
+I'm trying get the multi-{threading,processing} facilities merged ASAP
+to start rolling it out in practice.  The first thing popping out of my
+head is to get back {{pip 7962 "the multi-threaded"}} `pip list -o`.
+
+The other experimental improvement (this phrase does not sound right!)
+I would like to get done is the partial wheel download.  It would be
+really nice if I can get both included as `unstable-feature`'s
+in {{pip 7628#issuecomment-636319539 "the upcoming beta release of pip 20.2"}}.
+
+[the new resolver]: http://www.ei8fdb.org/thoughts/2020/05/test-pips-alpha-resolver-and-help-us-document-dependency-conflicts/