Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to follow what is recently being worked on, the general overview or status, without resorting to examining github commits.
I've noticed work on incremental compilation. is it ready to be experimented with? If there isn't such a way, can you have a weekly announcement thread on the forum, just telling what is worked on, and where to find more info or participate if you need beta testing.
Thanks!
Each commit is associated to aPR or logical change, so that makes a big difference.
To help narrow things down you can have a look the compiler directories history which will show a reasonable list of changes.
Another way would be to look at closed PRs in the last week. As far as I know a weekly summary isn't produced. That in and of itself is quite a lot of work.
If you're interested in participating then either working directly against the latest and submitting bugs, writing tests by way of runnable examples or areas with low coverage, running through bug reports and making sure they're still valid and creating regression tests where possible, working on smaller issues, doc updates, or perhaps you could summarize the week of development and see how it goes.
So, new concepts are a Nim v2 thing then, and the old concepts will not be deprecated?
IIRC you have a branch with the new concepts almost done, and you're waiting for someone else to pick it up and finish it. Is that right? If so, I think that's unrealistic; who else will do that work?
Following PRs, RFCs or discussions on IRC and the forum requires a significant investment in time and needs to be done routinely.
Perhaps a weekly summary of the main ongoing activities and requests for feedback could help attract contributors.