Roadmap Goals for Parrot 3.6: Are we on track?

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:47 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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?

I have looked at our existing tools and am at a bit of a loss. I do
not think that I quite understand what code we currently do have, what
that code is missing, and what I need to be doing. Profiling is not an
area where I have huge expertise and I have not been able to make any
progress whatsoever. I talked with cotto about this on IRC and he
suggested he might try to spearhead the issue. I am willing to write
whatever code is necessary, it's somebody figuring out what is
necessary that is giving me a hard time.

>> 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.

We don't have anything written down anywhere (Where would we even
write it, RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES? CREDITS?), but unless anybody else
desperately wants the position, it's filled by cotto and I. How do you
propose we formalize?

--Andrew Whitworth