Hi pypy-dev,
it makes sense to discuss a few issuses regarding future
development work (apart from the very nice and successful
translation meeting we had last week). I suggest to meet
Thursday, 2nd June, 3pm (CEST == GMT+1)
on #pypy at irc.freenode.net. Here are suggested topics:
- sprint announcement/themes:
although times and city are fixed already, the actual sprint
topics for the post-europython sprint from 1st July - 7th
July in Goetheborg (Sweden) are not yet decided and
announced. However, almost all active developers will come and
it's already safe to reserve the time and book your flights
if you want to attend a newcomer-friendly sprint!
- release planning: there is the idea to do a PyPy-0.6.2
around EuroPython or even as the finishing event of the
public EuroPython sprint. Goals for this possible release
need some discussion, though. Here is a suggestion:
- move our lib-python base to 2.4.1
- make documentation more complete (e.g. interpreter/
docs are still missing)
- integrate parser module (possibly making it RPython
conformant)
(- maybe offer a small tool to translate small
RPython programs)
- giving the translation efforts a stable base:
One problem with ongoing development of PyPy is that
the translation process is still somewhat fragile with
respect to type inference (annotation) on our source tree.
Therefore, it would be good if translation could for some time
rely on a non-changing PyPy base. One simple idea
is to fork off translation work in a branch, although
i'd like to avoid that if possible. For starters,
documentation changes in the branch would not be
immediately seen on the website. Any other _simple_ ideas?
- Advancing Issue Tracking:
we probably want to decide how we proceed with issue tracking
and especially classifications of issues. There is the
simple idea of assigning an 'easy', 'medium' and 'hard'
value to each issue to make it easier for newcomers and for
ourselves.
Moreover, if we go for a 0.6.2 release i think we should
redesign the tracker schema to use 'release' instead of
'milestone'.
- news/infos:
there are news regarding a guy who is likely to enter
the EU/PyPy project and who comes from the Squeak (Smalltalk
mostly implemented in Smalltalk) world. Just so you know.
- anything else i forgot (please post before instead of
suggesting it at the meeting -> better planning)
cheers & see you,
holger
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