[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


Estimated hours taken: 0.5

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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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