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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