Roadmap Goals for Parrot 3.6: Are we on track?

[James E Keenan]

On 7/3/11 1:14 AM, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> 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.

Since the above is the last post we've had on the profiling roadmap 
goal, I'd have to say that we have not met this roadmap goal.

Can we do better for 6.9?  Suggestions?

Thank you very much.

kid51