As already pointed out the scope of the 0.8 release is mainly: - Ship our integrated and now translated AST compiler - Ship the speed improvements we had since 0.7, which mainly means updating the documentation that discuss current speed - Ship a release in which the thunk space can also be translated The meeting is for people who think can spend some time helping with the release during the week. Agenda for the meeting (max ~1h): Status of the branch and regressions (max 15-20min) ------------------------------------------------- I have run tests and compliancy tests on the branch made on Friday: see issue 147 and http://www.strakt.com/~pedronis/testresult-pre0.8/ We have basically two regressions: - we have a failure in test_sort, because switching to using rpython lists directly has broken detecting changes during list sort in some situations. - translation with threads doesn't work at least because stack_too_big is not thread-safe, there may be other issues. Making stack_too_big thread-safe is not trivial x-platform wise. Discuss whether there are low-risk solutions that can be implemented in 1/2 days, otherwise I think the regressions are not show stoppers. Release tasks, mostly documentation updates (20-25min) ------------------------------------------------------ I have started adding issues to the tracker, under release 0.8, for updates/writing required for the release: - go through the list, see if something is amiss, possibly assign people to tasks and reviewing texts Packaging, uploading (15-20min) ---------------------------------- When and how to proceed making the candidate tarballs, uploading them and cutting the release. This is something so far Holger took care of, can this be delegated (or not for this release), how do we want to proceed? Thanks, Samuele.