The Perl 6 design team met on 31 October 2007. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Will, Jesse, and chromatic attended.
c:
- not a lot of progress
- some optimization
- more GC work
- will go through the bug tracker and see what I can resolve
Larry:
- nursing my tendinitis
- looking at the specs
- no programming though
Jesse:
- has anyone else jumped on your hackery?
Larry:
- they're mostly working in other dimensions at the moment
- eventually they'll want what I'm doing
Allison:
- as far as I know, Patrick should be able to check in the AST implementation tomorrow, which is his milestone date
- I'm mostly working on the other milestone for tomorrow, which is exceptions
- also working on fixing up Cardinal, which has a couple of glitches
- debugged about half of the problem
- I just want to make sure it's cleaned up before the next Parrot release
- want to be sure that it's not the new objects implementation causing problems
Will:
- Tcl is still broken
- chromatic and I have made some progress in the past week
- trying to get our ducks in a row for the next release
- want to get it all cleaned up in advance so there's not a lot of last minute work
Patrick:
- things are good
- added protobjects to Parrot
- they fit the Perl 6 model
- seem to work out very well
- reviewed a couple of documents for Parrot
- still working on the AST implementation
- expect to have that done sometime tomorrow
- NQP will be able to do things like call into libraries with Parrot
- then I'll be back on the Perl 6 compiler, translating that to use NQP and not PIR
Jerry:
- I'll be gone for most of the month, starting Friday
- I did see someone asking on #perl6 to help, but not getting any direction
- the most complete Perl 6 implementation is abandoned
- none of the other implementations are really ready to run the test suite
- so people can write documentation, write tests for a buggy implementation which isn't getting addressed
- or hack on another implementation in progress
Patrick:
- is there room for people to hack on kp6?
Jerry:
- there's a new committer as of the last week
Patrick:
- I should be making weekly or bi-weekly status reports soon
- the goal of those is to identify places where we can use immediate help
- should happen over the next four months
- expect a status report probably this weekend
Jerry:
- after Parrot 0.5.0, are you turning basically toward Perl 6?
Patrick:
- everything I've been building has been necessary for Perl 6 on Parrot
- but yes, that'll be my heavy focus for the next four months
- I have an explicit goal of recruiting between four and eight new contributors
c:
- what's the state of NQP documentation?
Patrick:
- it's a little weak
- it doesn't need much
- that's something Colin Kuskie was helping with
- it'll be easy for people to contribute documentation
- perhaps we need to gather the answers to questions people ask and put those in the documentation
