Parrot Developer Summit, Jan 29 2011: Summary: Roadmap Goals and Action Items

[James E Keenan]

The first quarterly Parrot Developer Summit of the year was held
starting at 2200 UTC on Saturday, October 29. The meeting was held
online in #parrotsketch. The meeting was logged here:
http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrotsketch/2011-01-29 and /2011-01-30. At
least 19 people participated in the discussion.

The following goals were designated as Roadmap Goals, i.e., goals for
which (a) the Parrot project as a whole publicly pledges to deliver in
specified supported releases; and (b) for which specific members of the
project have organized themselves into a team, with a designated leader,
for the purpose of achieving the goal.

1.
Title: Deprecations-as-Data
Subject: Change the way the project announces and tracks deprecations
from a plain-text file to a data structure (currently, YAML).
Team: dukeleto (lead), tadzik
Release Target: 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
Further info:
http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005397.html;
http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1888

2.
Title: IMCC Isolation
Subject: Isolate IMCC as first step in its removal from libparrot
Team: whiteknight (lead), plobsing, chromatic
Release Target: 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
Further info:
http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005394.html;
http://whiteknight.github.com/2011/01/23/the_imcc_plan.html

3.
Title: Lorito: M0 Specification and Prototype
Subject: Produce specification and initial implementation of the M0
layer of Lorito, defined as low-level details such as ops, memory
layout, etc.
Team: cotto (lead), atrodo, dukeleto
Release Target 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
Further info:
http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005400.html

Notes:
(a) Any mistakes in the above listing? Please respond ASAP.
(b) April 19 2011 is the second night of Passover, which some of our
developers will be celebrating. Hence, we really ought to have these
goals achieved several days earlier.

Other Action Items

We look forward to completion of work on the following additional action
items discussed at yesterday's summit:

4. Follow-up post on parrot-dev summarizing work on API embedding
project: whiteknight or other member of that team.

5. Parrot plan for participation in Google Summer of Code 2011: mikehh
started wiki page: http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSoc2011; dukeleto
to help prepare plan.

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[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

> 1.
> Title:  Deprecations-as-Data
> Subject:  Change the way the project announces and tracks deprecations from
> a plain-text file to a data structure (currently, YAML).
> Team:  dukeleto (lead), tadzik
> Release Target: 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
> Further info:
> http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005397.html;
> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1888

This has been completed and merged to master. The file is now called
"api.yaml" in the root of our repo.

Duke

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Jonathan "Duke" Leto
jona...@leto.net
http://leto.net
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[Christoph Otto]

We were going to report on the progress of these tasks at #ps today, but
several people couldn't make it. I suggested that we use parrot-dev to for
these reports.

The M0 spec and prototype goal is going more slowly than I'd like, but it's
making steady progress and is starting to come together. The known remaining
important bits are to iron out ffi and nail down the concurrency primitives.
There are likely a few unforeseen design decisions that will need to be
thought through, but the bulk of the work is nearing completion. It's a safe
bet that we'll have a spec done by 3.3 and there's a good chance that we'll
have an initial M0 interpreter to go with it.

Christoph

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[James E Keenan]

whiteknight, dukeleto, plobsing, et. al.:

Could you comment on the status of progress toward these Roadmap Goals?

>>
>> 1.
>> Title: Deprecations-as-Data
>> Subject: Change the way the project announces and tracks deprecations
>> from a
>> plain-text file to a data structure (currently, YAML).
>> Team: dukeleto (lead), tadzik
>> Release Target: 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
>> Further info:
>> http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005397.html;
>> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1888
>>
>> 2.
>> Title: IMCC Isolation
>> Subject: Isolate IMCC as first step in its removal from libparrot
>> Team: whiteknight (lead), plobsing, chromatic
>> Release Target: 3.3 (Apr 19 2011)
>> Further info:
>> http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-January/005394.html;
>> http://whiteknight.github.com/2011/01/23/the_imcc_plan.html
>>

(I realize we've had some off-list or on-IRC communication about this,
but it would be good to get the discussion on list as cotto did re M0.)

Thank you very much.
kid51

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