June 19

I should have posted this a couple of weeks ago after Razvan updated me, but I forgot all about it. Here's what's going on with the projects he's tracking.

Phobos v3 (Adam Wilson & Jonathan Davis)

Adam has been focusing primarily on his role as a GSoC mentor, so he's had less time than usual to put into Phobos v3. Jonathan made limited progress through April and May, but expected to have more time from this month. I should be able to report something on that front in the next update.

New GC (Steven Schveighoffer)

Steven reported that the Linux version is working and stable, but was using more memory than expected. He planned to look into that. He had also gotten the GC functioning on Windows and was working on getting it stable. If you've spent any time on the Discord server over the past couple of weeks, you may have seen some of his comments about a problem he encountered on Windows with, IIRC, a thread hanging.

Editions (Multiple)

Because Átila authored the Editions DIP, it needed to go through discussion by the core team before I could hand it off to Walter for the final verdict. We discussed it in our May monthly meeting. There was disagreement over a couple of details, particularly regarding command line flags. I'll post more information about that discussion in the meeting summary. The end result was that we had to schedule a more focused meeting the following week, where ultimately we agreed the DIP could move forward with some changes. I'll merge it into the DIP repository and hand it off to Walter once Átila implements the changes.

Rikki had been working on an implementation, but ultimately decided not to pursue it. Walter has since started working on one. Razvan will now be tracking that one.

Release Process (Dennis Korpel, Razvan Nitu)

Dennis was trying to improve the release scripts. He and Razvan wanted to come up with a plan to simplify the scripts and put it forward as a potential SAOC project.

GSoC

The coding period is under way. One of the students has been posting updates here in the forums. Razvan intends to keep tabs on their progress, so I should have some information on that front in future status updates.