Simon Cozens wrote:
>And that is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe; or at least,
>it is for me, and at least for now. I've enjoyed the privilege of
>working with and leading a great bunch of developers, but my life is
>filling up to the brim and I'm afraid I don't have much time to commit
>to Parrot any more; I'd very much like to make 0.0.4 my last release.
>
>I hope to contribute to Parrot in the future if things get less busy,
>but for now, I feel I've achieved my goals of putting Parrot on a solid
>footing, and it's time for me to rest.
>
>The pumpkin hereby passes to Jeff Goff. Go bug him now. :)
>
>Have fun, good luck, and God bless,
>
>Simon
>
And the wind keeps rollin',
And the sky keeps turnin' gray
And the sun is set...
The sun will rise another day.
-- Long Road, by Pe{a}rl Jam
Thanks, Simon. And take that long-deserved vacation.
Well, this should be fun. I'm going to try to do my best at this, and
not make too many mistakes along the way. Beyond my bio at perl.com
<http://www.perl.com/pub/au/Goff_Jeffrey> I don't have too much to say
about myself, other than I find myself with an abundance of free time, a
project that needs managing, and being oolish enough to take the job up.
As to the overall project targets, I'm going to try to keep working
toward the overal timeline and try not to stumble too often on the way
there.
As to priorities, let's take a quick look at the original timeline
(which I need to update soon).
http://www.parrotcode.org/todo # says that we should have Unicode
encoding and keyed aggregate support. Unicode was pushed off until at
least 0.05, and keyed aggregates seem to be there.
I'm speaking completely off the cuff here, but I'm tempted to dedicate
the next release to Unicode support and documentation, if only because
Unicode (given the experience I had trying to work up decent support) is
a huge chunk of work. Other pieces of the puzzle can go in as need be,
for instance I believe that symbol tables &c are being worked on at the
moment as well
For the sake of convenience, I can be contacted at the (potentially
confusing) address <drforr at hargray.com>. I'm also on irc via
irc.rhizomatic.net, nick of DrForr (hence the email address). Email here
in the Deep South seems to be a little problematic at times, but so far
I've had no problems.
In the immortal words of George Lucas...
The Adventure Begins.
--
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
