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<chromatic> Roll call!
<allison> hi c
* particle  
<kj> hi
<rgrjr> here!
<pmichaud> here
<chromatic> Shall we begin?
* barney is here
* jhorwitz is presemt
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<chromatic> allison?
<allison> I'm in merry mad finisher mode, locked in the office. Priorities are security PDD, PMC implementation branch, and concurrency implementation (will be creating a branch), in that order.
<allison> EOR
<chromatic> barney?
<barney> Back to Parrot, after getting started as a freelancer and
<barney> temporarily relocating to Darmstadt.
<barney> Nothing else to report.
<barney> .eor
<chromatic> I worked on the PMC PDD (and found a spot that needed Allison's approval before proceeding).
<chromatic> I found what I think is the Big Problem in the GC, and Bob Rogers and I have a plan for it.
<chromatic> I'm doing some profiling and optimization now and hope to speed up UTF-8 somewhat... 10% so far, hopefully a bit more.
<chromatic> jhorwitz?
* Tene is present.
<jhorwitz> at particle's request, working on mod_lolcode.
<jhorwitz> jmcadams wants to do a perlcast interview re: mod_parrot.  should be fun.
<jhorwitz> EOR
<chromatic> jonathan?
<jonathan> Mostly just hacking on Rakudo. No particular thing, mostly bits of OO stuff and other odds and ends.
<jonathan> Doing some conferences. Spoke at UPW, which went well. Co-presented a Perl 6 tutorial with Andrew Shitov. DPW next, and then I'm back to the usual $DAYJOB.
<jonathan> Hmm...nothing much else to speak of.
<jonathan> .eor
<chromatic> kj?
<kj> I worked on languages/c99; it didn't run before, but is now, and it can compile a Hello World program. The grammar is rather complex, will take quite some work for PIR stub generation for NCIs.
<kj> with compile, I mean compile and run.
<kj> .end
<chromatic> particle?
<particle> ~ helped with release, pmichaud++
<particle> ~ some progress on a yaml dumper. yaml_dumper.pir is available, but not quite working for PAST yet
<particle> ~ rakudo:
<particle>   . more updates to perl6doc
<particle>   . removed deprecated compiler directives from grammar
<particle>   . some work on zev++'s patch for perl 6 runtime libraries, still working out bugs before committing
<particle> .end
<chromatic> pmichaud?
<pmichaud> * Presented on Perl 6 and Parrot at FOSDEM 2008 (Brussels)
<pmichaud> * slides available at http://www.pmichaud.com/2008/pres/fosdem-perl6/
<pmichaud> * Also going to write about it in use.perl tonight
<pmichaud> * ... and other articles as well
<pmichaud> * Released 0.5.3 ("Way of the Parrot")
<pmichaud> * That seems to have gone well
<pmichaud> * A few CPAN module ownership issues, but nothing major
<pmichaud> * Reviewed a few tickets, applied some, decided to wait on others until after release
<pmichaud> * Reviewed patches to rakudo
<pmichaud> * Started to implement ".foo" as shortcut for "$_.foo" this weekend, then discovered that jonathan++ beat me to it
<pmichaud> * Wrote a short patch to get upcase/downcase to work for the Latin-1 subset of Unicode, which enables us to do a few more things in Rakudo
<pmichaud> * Will apply the upcase/downcase patch a bit later
<pmichaud> * Hopefully moving Rakudo to utf-8 source won't slow it down too much
<pmichaud> EOR
<chromatic> rgrjr?
<rgrjr> not much to say; had a cold for most of the past two weeks.  last weekend I got a bit further on the GC problems that have been killing me for months, but it's progress of the 2-steps-forward-1-step-back variety.  I have much reading to do before i'll be much use in GC-land.  (and i can hardly wait to hear this plan chromatic says we cooked up.  ;-)
<rgrjr> .eor
<chromatic> Tene?
<Tene> Committed lolcode fixes that have been pending.
<Tene> Got function definition and calls, including parameters, to work in cardinal.
<Tene> Broke MANIFEST.
<Tene> I've been solicited to give a Parrot talk at Penguicon.
<Tene> .eor
<chromatic> tewk?
<chromatic> anyone else I missed?
<chromatic> Let's go to question time then.
<chromatic> Are there any questions?
<chromatic> I have one.  Are the GC problems any better today than they were on Friday?
<rgrjr> chromatic:  no data, but i can get back to you.
<chromatic> Thanks!
<chromatic> Any blockers?
<pmichaud> blocking on time
<particle> same
<particle> trying to inspire others to do work, so i can still be helpful somehow :)
<chromatic> Sounds like it's time to adjourn.  Talk to you all next week.
<barney> What are the goals for Parrot 0.6.0, the March release ?
<pmichaud> iirc, 0.6 was to represent the new pmc implementation
<particle> we don't tie release numbers to dates, but we were targeting february release for 0.6. oops!
<chromatic> We tied milestones to dates, which reminds me that our milestone document is probably somewhat out of date.
<particle> see http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?release_planning
<pmichaud> since the new pmc impl didn't make it in time for the feb release, I chose 0.5.3 instead of 0.6.0
<pmichaud> I think we do the same for march -- it's more important that release numbers match features than dates
<particle> 0.6 was for exceptions and ast implementations, per that url
<particle> s/was/is/
<pmichaud> okay, I was mistaken then
<pmichaud> and should've probably released at 0.6
<pmichaud> *as
<allison> exceptions still needs to move over to the new concurrency scheduler
<allison> so, you were right to delay it
<pmichaud> ah, good
<allison> and, agreed, getting the releases out the door every month matters more than what we number them
<particle> we'll likely need to review that url, because i suspect 0.6 will be quite featurefull
<pmichaud> well, the release managers can collectively update it 
<barney> March 28th on http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?release_schedule_2008 is probably a type
<barney> s/ype/ypo/
<particle> yep, should be 18
<barney> changed
<chromatic> Talk to you all next week!
<pmichaud> see you next week
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