On 6/19/11 11:18 AM, James E Keenan wrote:
Friends,
We're two days away from our monthly release, which means we're four
weeks away from our quarterly supported release of Parrot 3.6 on July
19.
3.6 is now a mere 17 days away.
So this is a good point to ask: How well are we doing on the Release
Map goals we set at our last online Parrot Developer Summit, which was
held on May 14
(http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-May/005887.html)?
1. We set a policy that the Parrot project would "... collaborate with
HLLs to develop ways of benchmarking the performance of the HLLs as
targeted to monthly Parrot releases and the expressed needs of those HLLs."
Have we developed those ways of benchmarking the performance of HLLs
built on top of our monthly releases?
Patrick Michaud's response indicates that one HLL has been working on
this from their side. How are we doing from the Parrot side.
2. whiteknight and cotto were named as the original members of a team to
pursue the goal of better profiling. By 3.6 we are to have "studied our
existing profiling tools, determined their strengths and limitations and
developed a plan for significant improvements in later supported releases."
Has that study of our existing profiling tools begun?
No.
What progress have
me made?
None.
At the very least, I haven't received any reports of progress and didn't
hear anyone talking about this at the various Parrot-at-YAPC sessions in
Asheville this week.
whiteknight, cotto, et. al.: Could we persuade you to pause for a while
on your other efforts so that we can have some forward motion on this goal?
3. We recognized the need for Parrot and Rakudo to have relationship
managers who would "... be each project's principal contact point for
resolution of problems with regard to breakage or deterioration of
performance." I believe we spoke of cotto and whiteknight filling those
roles from the Parrot side, but I don't know whether we formalized it.
And my impression from backscrolling through #phasers is that Rakudo
hasn't made formal assignments either.
Are my impressions correct? If so, can we get moving on this?
While I haven't heard from the Rakudo and Parrot relationship
managers-designate that they have formally initiated this process, the
discussions we had this past week at YAPC certainly reflect the *spirit*
of this Roadmap Goal.
That's where I think things stand.
Thank you very much.
kid51
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