Nice list. Thx for posting. cheers -ben On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 22:03, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, > > Since some time we wanted to start with this report to keep you all > informed on what we are doing to achieve our goals for the release. > After ESUG we took some time to organise and we managed to put this in > movement. > The idea is to post one the first week of each month (but it may vary, as > you see with this one who came a bit later :P) > > Actions reportes are just dots, since we do not have the time to add a big > explanation and we hope you are already involved and more or less know what > we are talking about. > But do not hesitate to ask if you want more details :) > > *Roadmap progress report.* > *September 2019* > > > *Image* > > *Code Loading* > > - Profiling the time spent to load code > - Reimplementing a better Read/Write Buffered Stream > - Improving the performance of Source writing and reading, > - Improving in at least 20% the time of loading code using Metacello. > > > *Spec 2* > > - Pass on SpMillerColumnPresenter to made it of general use. > - Implement a specific SpMillerLayout to handle Miller columns. > - Pass on regular input ports (transmissions subsystem) to implement > activation ports. > - Pass on SpStyle subsystem (kind of STON based stylesheets for > Morphic). > - Fix SpGridLayout horizontal cell calculous. (It was broken). > - Fix SpBoxLayout berderWith and padding. (It was broken). > - Added contextual menus to widgets. > - This functionality was completely revamped to make it work in all > backends. > - It was generalised to all widgets (even if not all should use it!) > - Added focus order to presenters. > - This is also a full revamp of old existing functionality. > - it accepts you to change the default order, but it has a default > order (previous implementations forced you to do the focusing by hand). > - Added key binding support for all widgets. > - This is also a full revamp of old exiting functionality. > > > *Spec2+GTK3* > > - callbacks can now be chained. This requires some explanation: In > Gtk3 you connect to signals. And you can connect just one callback to one > signal. Thankfully we control the callbacks in our side, so we modified > signal callbacks to accept to chain other callbacks (then we can connect > several actions to one single event, for example "keypress" or “hide"). > - along with this, we reworked the callback hierarchy. > - implemented inheritance in Pharo of Gtk3 objects and interfaces > (this is needed to enhance control of tables and many others). > - added autocompletion capabilities to SpCodePresenter. > - added a mechanism to avoid duplicate signalling between the backend > and the adaptors. > - Fix an important leak on GtkFormView. > > > *NewTools* > > - Inspector > - it now implements Miller columns > - Using TaskIt as backend for stepping. > - extensions migrated (we are at 10% of the total of migrations > needed, we will enhance this in iterative way). > - Debugger > - Almost complete revamp of UI. > - Fix context updating (to allow commands to actually work) > - Integrate new inspector. > - Work on new layouts for debugger > - Make an experimental tool: "playbook", to concentrate playgrounds > and test some UI ideas. > > > *UFFI* > > - Adding Tests > - Support for kind of literals and support type definitions in literals > - Documentation > - Measuring performance issues on large images. > > > *TaskIT* > > - Implement a prototype of a distributed backend to execute tasks. > - Implement a communication layer using Rabbit MQ > - Implement the first version of a process manager for handling > multiples images and workers. > > > *VM* > > - Fixing problem with LibGIT and Windows 1903. > - Fixing the performance issues of Windows 1903 with File accesses > when using solid-state 4k physical sector disks. > - XCode integration > - Adding an initial version to detect invalid order in the return from > concurrent callbacks. > - Improving the implementation of TFFI to run 50% faster in callouts. > - Build of StackVM > > >
