weekly Rakudo status meetings with phase transitions: Tue 19:00 UTC | IR clogs at irclog.perlgeek.de/phasers/today
Set by moderator on 4 August 2010.
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moritz_ \\o 19:00
PerlJam greets
pmichaud greetings
[Coke] ~~ 19:01
moritz_ so, who's going to start? 19:02
should I go?
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masak please do. 19:03
moritz_ first of all I was glad to meet many of you at YAPC
and I enjoyed the productive discussions
now working on adverbs
for regexes
mostly inplace
is 'abc' ~~ m:i/ABC/ works
masak moritz_++ 19:04
moritz_ TODOs remain: m:g//, return values of s///
PerlJam moritz_++ indeed
moritz_ also thinks we should focus more on the book
other things I did: answered p6 questions on perlmonks
blogged
gave a p6 talk 19:05
that's it for now
wait
still looking for "contribute now" ideas
implementing Path, IO::File and qp// would be an option, but I don't like these features myself :-)
if you have any ideas, please come forth 19:06
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masak: can you give us a GSOC & co report?
masak absolutely. 19:07
there's one big thing and one small thing remaining in my GSoC work.
the big thing is pack/unpack. I've been gathering momentum (and data) in the past few days.
I expect to commit something this evening.
the small thing is making Buf IO encoding work. last time I tried, things got doubly encoded, and I discovered that some PIR plumbing is missing. 19:08
yesterday was the soft pens-down deadline, which means I'm tiddle bittle behind on my schedule. 19:09
that's fairly consistent with me basically being on vacation for the past two or so weeks.
but I feel confident I'll be able to bring the project into a 'finished' state by the end of this week. 19:10
'finished' is in quotes mainly because pack/unpack are big scary things, containing years of cruft.
I'll go for the low-hanging fruit, and punt on the stuff that requires things we don't have yet. as I would anyway.
I also had a good time at YAPC last week. 19:12
many productive and inspiring discussion in the hallway, and many good talks.
oh! and people have been emailing and privmsging me over both u4x and Buf/IO lately. that's encouraging. 19:13
clearly there's been an uptake of Rakudo use since Star.
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moritz_ colomon: do you have a report? 19:14
colomon I had a very lovely time playing tunes and hanging out with out friends and new.
I had a lousy Internet connection, and gave very little thought to $work or Rakudo. 19:15
I want to spend more time on optimizations. 19:16
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moritz_ pmichaud?
colomon errr, "old friends".
:)
moritz_ has an error-correcting parser for English 19:17
pmichaud let's see... we didn't have a #phasers meeting last week (or I didn't attend), so
issued the rakudo star release and announcements
attended YAPC::EU 19:18
presented about NQP and Rakudo Star
had a wonderful time meeting and seeing everyone at YAPC::EU
drafted a new preliminary ROADMAP -- patches welcomed
working on cleanups to Star's build process
working on closing tickets
responded to many blog posts about the meaning of the R* release 19:19
catching up on many at-home tasks that have stacked up since YAPC::NA
my current plans are to continue with bug fixes, ticket closings, build improvements, and other management-y things
my hague grant proposal for lists/iterators was approved, so I'll be working on that for the next ~8 weeks 19:20
the book is somewhat more time-pressing, so I plan to focus there first
colomon pmichaud: I didn't hear! \\o/
pmichaud I have local branches with refactors for Range and various numeric methods that cause things (esp. Int) to run unnecessarily slow 19:21
moritz_ (and colomon++'s final grant report was posted, I guess that means the grant is "done")
pmichaud will apply those over the next few days, as time permits
I'll be away at $otherjob all day Friday.
I'll .eor for now 19:22
moritz_ pmichaud++
anybody else want to report something? [Coke]? sorear? 19:23
[Coke] just trying to keep an eye on RT.
pmichaud [Coke]++
moritz_ rather successfully :-)
[Coke]++ indeed
pmichaud we really appreciate the RT wrangling
PerlJam I have nothing to report other than I plan on working on the book if anything.
yes, [Coke]++
[Coke] well, the # of tickets is growing, so it's not working yet. =-) 19:24
but, NP.
pmichaud we expected the # of tickets to grow after R*
at least, I did. :)
colomon certainly hoped it would. 19:25
masak oooh! RT, I forgot to say. :)
for the first time in two years, I feel outnumbered by all you other people when it comes to submitting bugs. :P
I almost made a blog post about that. 19:26
surely that's a good sign too for Star.
PerlJam masak: you should!
masak then I will.
colomon [Coke]: what profiling capabilities do we have now? 19:34
moritz_ there should be PIR-level profiling with the profiling runcore 19:39
I fear not much more
[Coke] what moritz_ said. 19:41
moritz_ I wonder if it can be hijacked to honor annotations
anything else we want to discuss today? 19:42
moritz_ is fairly happing, having discussed many thing in real life recently
pmichaud I think we're good for this week. Next week is the Parrot+Rakudo compiler releases, iirc 19:43
moritz_ yes
we don't have many new features in the compiler
pmichaud several of us discussed that we'll suspend compiler release announcements beyond p6c for a while 19:44
[Coke] WFM
pmichaud most of what we have in the compiler will be speed improvements, which is probably good enough
moritz_ wasn't involved, but is all for it
PerlJam I saw that email. Sounds like a good idea
pmichaud and we have some parser improvements
and I suspect we'll have a fair number of bugfixes, which is worth reporting on
moritz_ aye 19:45
mathw is doing the release
pmichaud excellent -- mathw++
moritz_ I'll stand by as a backup if anything goes wrong
any volunteers for the Nov release?
pmichaud I'll do the *+1 release again this month, and look to recruit new Star release managers starting in Sep
colomon pmichaud: still the week after normal Rakudo release? 19:46
moritz_ maybe I should ask on p6c for release managers
pmichaud colomon: yes, but I moved it to the Tue instead of the Thu
PerlJam Is R* going to have some "theme" with the modules that get included in the dist or just "anything that might be useful"?
colomon sounds reasonable.
pmichaud I don't think we'll need an entire week between compiler and star release
PerlJam: "useful" is the star theme 19:47
moritz_ we should include perl6-File-Find from tadzik++ 19:48
pmichaud +1
PerlJam okay ... what criteria define "useful"?
pmichaud PerlJam: I'm not likely to formalize it much beyond that yet
PerlJam wfm
moritz_ PerlJam: if it's useful to at least one person on the channel, and another can see how it would be potentially useful for him/her, we include it :-)
pmichaud if it's a module that's reasonably part of a core distribution, then it can go in
there's also a possibility that the next compiler will have a split setting 19:49
i.e., setting created via separate compilation. I'm gathering that's a relatively big pain point
moritz_ oh, File::Find is already in star :-)
pmichaud I worked on adding --target=pbc while on the plane.... and it didn't work. 19:50
moritz_ :(
any other phase transitions we need to discuss? 19:52
pmichaud I'm done. 19:53
moritz_ too
let's call it a day
next week will be more interesting, with jnthn++ being back 19:54
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