Merging threads

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 23:21:28 UTC 2012


We don't currently report branch issues as github tickets, so the
issue is just in my head (and tadzik's head too). Maybe we want to
change this norm. I'll put together more of a writeup this weekend.

--Andrew Whitworth


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Andrew, can you shed some light on this? Do you have a link to a Github issue?
>
> Duke
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The last big issue is one reporting by tadzik++ in nqp. I haven't had
>> a chance to dig into it myself, but I will try to get that resolved
>> soon.
>>
>> --Andrew Whitworth
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> So, it looks like rurban++ correctly fixed threads on g++ (as well as
>>> fixing a bug which went un-noticed because the code in question is not
>>> tested). Nicely done!
>>>
>>> As the next release manager, I would like to focus our energies on
>>> getting the threads branch properly documented, tested and merged by
>>> October 12th (a few days before the 4.9.0 stable release). If you have
>>> an itch to work on something Parrot-related but you don't quite know
>>> what to work on, hack on threads, please :)
>>>
>>> If you know of an issue on the threads branch, please notify the list
>>> and/or create a Github issue for it. If you have a little extra time,
>>> perhaps you can write some example code that shows off our threads
>>> implementation, or a benchmark showing how an algorithm can be sped up
>>> with threads. We also probably need some "high-level" introduction to
>>> our threads because I believe most of our docs for threads are at the
>>> "low" API level.
>>>
>>> It would also be nice to start working on a blog post for parrot.org
>>> that announces that threads has been merged, why it is important and
>>> what people can do with it. Would somebody like to spearhead that
>>> effort?
>>>
>>> Duke
>>>
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>
>
>
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> Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net>
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