Parrot Developer Summit: July 30 2011 2100 UTC: Proposed Agenda

[James E Keenan]

Proposed Agenda

I. Review since last PDS (May 09)
A. Roadmap Goals

1. Benchmarking: 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."

2. Profiling:  By 3.6 we were to have "studied our existing profiling 
tools, determined their strengths and limitations and developed a plan 
for significant improvements in later supported releases."

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."

[Marked as substantially achieved on 2011-07-03: 
http://lists.parrot.org/pipermail/parrot-dev/2011-July/005977.html]

B. Other developments since last summit

* M0
* GSOC
* Others brought up by participants

II. Going Forward
A. Selection of roadmap goals for 3.9 (and possibly 4.0)

There have been posts to parrot-dev re roadmap goals touching on the 
following subjects:
* M0
* 6model
* Sharpen support for windows
* User-facing application

Should any of the previous roadmap goals not yet met be continued going 
forward?

B. Identification of non-roadmap goals and other things people will be 
working on.

This is the place for discussion of things that either (a) are on our 
wishlist for the future; or (b) individual Parrot developers hope to 
work on in the coming 3 months whether or not designated as roadmap goals.