[m-dev.] for review: Mercury meeting minutes for 23/02/01
Julien Fischer
juliensf at students.cs.mu.oz.au
Fri Feb 23 16:21:32 AEDT 2001
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+We had a meeting of the Mercury group on Fri Feb 23, 2001,
+from 2.00 to 2.40pm.
+
+Attendees:
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh)
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ David Jeffery (dgj)
+ Simon Taylor (stayl)
+ Julien Fischer (juliensf)
+ Adrian Pellas-Rics (apell)
+ Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
+ Ina Cheng (inch)
+ Simon Mei (xcsm)
+ Levi Cameron (lpcam)
+ David Overton (dmo)
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+ Thomas Conway (conway)
+
+1. Release
+ - 0.10 has been tagged and finalized. Waiting on web pages.
+ Some bugs have been reported already.
+
+2. Progress reports
+
+ We went around the table with each person in turn discussing what
+ they had been working on recently and/or what they were planning
+ to work on.
+
+ Fergus Henderson (fjh)
+ - Working on release. Plans to announce it soon.
+ - helping summer students.
+ - Has found more bugs in gcc backend interface. It
+ doesn't work with -02 and greater.
+
+ David Jeffery (djg)
+ - Has been addressing zs and fjh's review comments on the
+ HAL branch.
+
+ Simon Taylor (stayl)
+ - Started working on inter-module optimization.
+
+ Julien Fischer (juliensf)
+ - Addressing review coments on Java backend. The
+ following are not working:
+ * multi and nondet predicates
+ * foreign language interfacing
+ * higher order functions
+ * correct generation of class/package names
+ - Is currently writing documentation for Java backend
+
+ Adrian Pallas-Rice (appell)
+ - Has been working on getting sequence quantification
+ implementation into a useful state.
+ - Is planning to have something ready to review late
+ next week.
+
+ Sam Thurairatnam (sthur)
+ - Has finished off work on the pretty printer and posted it
+ for review.
+
+ Ina Cheng (inch)
+ - Has been addressing review comments and cleaning up
+ code.
+ - Is ready to commit her work.
+
+ Simon Mei (xcsm)
+ - Has been addressing review comments
+ - Is almost ready to post a diff of both quickcheck and
+ the tutorial.
+
+ David Overton (dmo)
+ - Has been working on ROBDD's.
+ - Has been measuring the performance of above.
+
+ Levi Cameron (lpcam)
+ - Has been trying to get the bytecode interpreter to pass
+ all tests cases.
+ - fjh suggests that he provide documentation for the bytecode
+ interpreter.
+
+ Mark Brown (dougl)
+ - Has been doing reviews.
+ - Has been documenting the declarative debugger.
+ - fjh asked if the declarative debugger should be included
+ as an official part of the release.
+ - dougl said that he wasn't expecting it to be, but it could.
+ - zs says that it should be labelled as a prototype and that
+ it should be in the release.
+ - fjh said that if the declarative debugger were to be included
+ in the release it would need to be reviewed soon.
+
+ Thomas Conway (conway)
+ - Has been working on his thesis.
+
+ Zoltan Somogyi (zs)
+ - Has been working on the deep-profiler.
+ - Has fixed a problem with liveness analysis.
+ - Has the code generator building stage 2 in
+ accurate gc grades -- does not build stage 3
+ as of yet.
+
+3. Other Business
+ - Zoltan described the layout of the new building to the group.
+
+Minutes taken by Julien Fischer (juliensf at studets.cs.mu.oz.au)
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