The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 19 August 2009. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- mostly participated in lots of conversations
- fixed a few error messages
- spending too much time going to museums to block on anything
Patrick:
- didn't get much done, as planned
- spent my weekend at a wedding, dealing with logistical snafus
- observed how much development took place in my absence
- that was incredible
- Rakudo made a lot of progress, glad to see that
- Kyle H. will do the release in the next 24 hours
- likely named PDX
- first release that builds from an installed Parrot, not a build tree Parrot
Will:
- that's "instead of" instead of "in addition to"?
Patrick:
- that's right
- probably won't change until Parrot's build stage produces something that looks like an installed Parrot
- primary focus this week is on grant-related activities
- have some followup on the Lisbon trip
- reviewing Jonathan's latest grant, as he's almost finished
- working on my grant to get regex engine refactors in place
Allison:
- working on the PCC refactor
- fixing failing tests
- it's a lot of little changes
- one five-line change the other day passed another 70 tests
- 301 failing tests at the moment, had 308 yesterday
- will probably have less time in the next week, but hope to fix 100 or 200 failing tests
- one big failure would fix a hundred failures itself
- something deeply buried in Test::Builder
- my next big task after that is working on Parrot's build tree
- PaFo set the member voting and meeting for August 26
- that'll take care of our annual requirements
Will:
- working on Partcl
- made one or two more tests pass
- made sure that Perl 5.10.1 RC can build Parrot, which it does
c:
- merged my runcore refactoring into our branch
- working with Christoph to get profiling ready for 1.6
- working on optimizations as usual
Nicholas:
- the p6l discussion of filename validation seems like a rat's nest
- other people have noted the trouble Python 3 has about assuming UTF-8ness on incoming OS data
- Perl 6 should make different mistakes
