The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 12 March 2008. Allison, Jerry, Will, Mitchell, Nicholas, Jesse, and chromatic attended.
Allison:
- concurrency summit was very eye-opening
- the discusses circled around and came close to what I concluded for the Parrot concurrency model
- launched the PDD 17 implementation
- a lot of this implementation was cleaning up old, bad PMC implementations
- it shakes out old bugs
- gives us a chance to do some general cleanup
- working on OSCON now for the next few days
Jerry:
- haven't had much time to make commits this week
- just a couple of fixes to Tcl
- good to see that working so well on Windows
- working with Eric on Google's SoC
- he sent off the application earlier this week
- we're waiting for the good news
- Patrick's getting married on Friday
- next week, he and Paula will be traveling around the southwest, generally having a fun vacation
Jerry:
- there's a thread on the mailing list about setting up a Parrot workshop at YAPC::NA
- Patrick plans to submit a few talks
- I may too
c:
- I rewrote a lot of PMCs
- that helped us do the merge
- did some profiling, made some optimizations
- looking into an alignment bug with GCable elements
- Andy Dougherty and Jerry are seeing it on Solaris and Windows, respectively
Will:
- new Parrot monthly release next Tuesday, 0.6.0
- includes all of the PMC updates
- a lot of languages are in a better state now than they were before the merge
- I did some Tcl work recently
Nicholas:
- trying to work out what Perl 5 needs in terms of day-to-day bug flux
- might be useful to employ someone to handle that full time
- we have about a week's worth of bugs that comes in every week
- volunteers aren't doing that
- that'll be relevant to Perl 6 in the long term
Richard:
- TPF elections are underway, should be over in two or three days
- supporting Eric with the GSoC stuff
- lurking on the p5p discussion that Nick mentioned
- trying to figure out where the funding is coming from
- I'd like to get TPF to help out there
- discussing similar things with regard to Perl 6 in the past weeks
- those are positive
- they want to support people and get TPF to the place where it can disperse that support
- hoping that the elections help get TPF in better shape for that
- I'll be at Eclipse Con next week
- closed-door meetings with their brass
- they're supportive of TPF
Mitchell:
- my hacking's speculative
- looking at several pieces of Perl 6 implementations that have accumulated
- trying to find a way to combine them into a usable implementation to help an active P6 coding community re-gel
- sometimes trying to make it easier to access existing components
- sometimes trying to make them more accessible to reuse other parts
- we've had five or six attempts at full stack pieces and even more pieces, but none of them expose a usable parse tree (Pugs doesn't really have one)
Jesse:
- is it a small matter of programming, or are things blocking your way?
Mitchell:
- mostly my time now
- may be Parrot resources in the future
Jerry:
- we should coordinate talk submissions for YAPC
Jesse:
- is there a hackathon scheduled?
Jerry:
Update: revised a note in Mitchell's report
