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. 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?
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? What progress
have me made?
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?
Next week is YAPC::NA::2011 -- the point in the calendar year when
Parrot developers are most likely to see each other face-to-face, and
also one of the points where likely Parrot users are able to pose
questions to us face-to-face. It would be great to go into YAPC
confident that we are meeting our current Roadmap Goals.
Thank you very much.
kid51
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