The Perl 6 design team meet by phone on 20 January 2010. Allison, Patrick, Will, and chromatic attended.

Allison:

• did distro testing on Ubuntu and the Mac
• set up a Hardy chroot; Parrot works just fine there
• have a feeling we missed some deprecations, but we have a lot in there
• enough to work on for three months

c:

• I added the STRING idea, to give us the possibility of the value semantics change

Allison:

• less stressful to have three months at a time
• otherwise working on class assignments

Patrick:

• family illness knocked me out for a few days
• we'll postspone the January release for up to a week
• going to make the Rakudo-ng branch the master branch
• that won't take more than a week
• we'll release by Thursday of next week
• also need to make the -ng branch build with Parrot 2.0.0
• need to merge some outstanding patches to make that work

c:

• are you going to stick with 2.0.0?

Patrick:

• unless we need a change in Parrot that we can't live without, yes

Will:

• we could do a point release if you need one

Patrick:

• that's up to Parrot
• from Rakudo's perspective, that's not terribly important
• we're shifting everything around for the -ng branch
• we'll definitely stick the February release to Parrot 2.1
• I'll post messages to the list about the new release plan shortly

Will:

• working on the one_make branch in Parrot
• trying to mark dependencies properly in a single Makefile
• get some of that out of the configure system
• we should be able to merge to trunk in a day or two
• there's still more work to do, but we're at a merge point soon

c:

• released Parrot 2.0.0 yesterday
• sending out release announcements soon, but the code is out
• Stephen Weeks helped me fix up PGE not to fetch methods from namespaces
• should be able to merge the TT #389 fix branch to trunk very soon
• will take a look at other Rakudo blockers after that