The Perl 6 design team meet by phone on 20 January 2010. Allison, Patrick, Will, and chromatic attended.
Allison:
- did distro testing on Ubuntu and the Mac
- set up a Hardy chroot; Parrot works just fine there
- have a feeling we missed some deprecations, but we have a lot in there
- enough to work on for three months
c:
- I added the STRING idea, to give us the possibility of the value semantics change
Allison:
- less stressful to have three months at a time
- otherwise working on class assignments
Patrick:
- family illness knocked me out for a few days
- we'll postspone the January release for up to a week
- going to make the Rakudo-ng branch the master branch
- that won't take more than a week
- we'll release by Thursday of next week
- also need to make the -ng branch build with Parrot 2.0.0
- need to merge some outstanding patches to make that work
c:
- are you going to stick with 2.0.0?
Patrick:
- unless we need a change in Parrot that we can't live without, yes
Will:
- we could do a point release if you need one
Patrick:
- that's up to Parrot
- from Rakudo's perspective, that's not terribly important
- we're shifting everything around for the -ng branch
- we'll definitely stick the February release to Parrot 2.1
- I'll post messages to the list about the new release plan shortly
Will:
- working on the one_make branch in Parrot
- trying to mark dependencies properly in a single Makefile
- get some of that out of the configure system
- we should be able to merge to trunk in a day or two
- there's still more work to do, but we're at a merge point soon
c:
- released Parrot 2.0.0 yesterday
- sending out release announcements soon, but the code is out
- Stephen Weeks helped me fix up PGE not to fetch methods from namespaces
- should be able to merge the TT #389 fix branch to trunk very soon
- will take a look at other Rakudo blockers after that
