The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 03 December 2008. Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Jesse, and chromatic attended.
Patrick:
- things are going well
- we fixed lexicals, which solves a lot of problems for November
- several people have worked on core features of Parrot to simplify things we're doing in Rakudo
- especially initializing subroutines, getting signatures correct, and MMD
- we're waiting for that to land soon
- Jonathan and I will clean up the compiler code after that
- it'll be a big improvement
- that allows us to fix up signature processing to work correctly
- affects multis and MMD
- helps fix binding properly
- we'll probably get list assignment and slicing working after that
- expect that in the next two weeks
- otherwise just fixing bugs and adding new features to Rakudo
- I owe Richard an updated Rakudo roadmap
- I hope to create something with more narrative prose for the next three months
- something publishable as a report, rather than a list of milestones
- it's part of the grant
- target audience: people who are curious about where Rakudo stands with respect to Christmas
- I'll also address our plan for Rakudo releases in the new year
c:
- restarted the Coverity scans and fixed up all of our Tier 1 errors
- they mostly are resource leaks and bad dereferences
- we should get bumped up to Tier 2 soon, which is more stringent
- otherwise, fixed some other bugs
- cleaned up some memory leaks
- reviewing Inf/NAN design soon
- also leading the review of our TODO/SKIP tests, so they all have tickets filed and get un-TODOed and unSKIPped as necessary
Allison:
- tracking down final test failures on the IO branch
- just about ready to merge in
- spent time reviewing Andrew's work in the calling conventions branch
- it looks like he has context-related failures in PCT
- spent some time looking at Reini Urban's makeinstall branch
- hiring an accountant for PaFo
- reviewing the copyright assignment from TPF to PaFo
Jesse:
- have you paid attention to the Synopses updates in the Pugs repository?
Patrick:
- I forgot to mention that they're there now
- lots of work on S07, Iterators and Laziness
Allison:
- are we deleting them from the perl.org repository?
Jesse:
- I thought the plan was to snapshot that occasionally
Patrick:
- Robert suggested we add an
svn:external redirect there
- I believe he moved the POD to HTML generation to pull from the new location
- one of the two things needs to happen
- I moved the entire revision history when I imported them into the Pugs repository
- it would be good if the website resembled reality somehow
- the one synopsis not in Pugs is Synopsis 26
Jesse:
- I talked to Damian about that
- he's okay with a snapshot going in
- he'll be working on it further
Jerry:
- worked on the Perl 6 command-line syntax
- developing a grammar, more for documentation than implementation
- lets me test my ideas though
- that's progressing nicely
- expect to work on this the remainder of the week
- getting closer to releasing a draft
- have not yet been blogging about this
- it's about time now
- should I use the Pugs repository for my work in progress?
- not sure I want to be that visible at this point
Jesse:
- there's no huge reason to keep the work private
Patrick:
- you might get a lot of kibbitzing
Jerry:
- I don't need the distraction
Patrick:
- the mailing list discussion about S16 is an example
- that's a productive example
- but it might be interpreted wrongly if Jerry just ignores that
Jerry:
