I've said before and I'll say again, that getting people to focus in a volunteer-driven community is like herding cats. You just can't force volunteers to work on any one particular task, although I am a firm believer that you can do a lot to motivate them so the choose to do what's needed. Of course, this is more of a sprint technique then a marathon one, you're not going to get people to do the work that they don't personally want to do for too long. Any longer and it leads to serious burnout.
I am definitly able and willing to work on things that the project needs, although I have plenty of my own pet projects that provide me personal satisfaction. I am, for instance, hell-bent on putting AIO together starting this month. I've also developed a personal vendetta against the GC system that I plan to tackle in the not-so-distant future. Of course, I'm pretty sure the GC is going to become a community priority eventually, and then I'll just be another part of a (hopefully large) development team.
When prompted, chromatic listed these few things off the cuff that he thought were current development priorities:
- Parrot Calling Conventions system refactoring and optimizing
- Installable Parrot
- HLLs running from an Installable Parrot
- Fixing Multiple Dispatch semantics (which is really an ancillary part of the PCC work, I think)
- Replace IMCC with PIRC
- The Garbage Collector
- The JIT system
- The packfile system
- L1
I'm hoping beyond hope that we can talk about all this cool stuff at YAPC next week. I know the time is really only allocated for a hacking workshop, but maybe some afterhours conversation can address some of these things.
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