Last weeks meeting notes

Author: nrc

minutes/meeting notes 2018-02-15.md

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+# February 15th, 2018
+
+Agenda week, Vidyo meeting: 2018 Roadmap and team organisation
+
+## Notes
+
+We discussed the roadmap initially at the end of last year. At this meeting we
+went over a list of goals and agreed they were good for the team.
+
+
+### Roadmap
+
+* ship things!
+  - rustfmt 1.0 and rustup dist
+  - RLS 1.0
+  - VSCode 1.0
+  - Clippy 1.0
+    * 1.0 but carefully define what stability means
+    * look into distribution (rustup, alternatives?)
+    * audit lints - categorise, make buggy ones allow by default
+    * move towards a more stable API
+* epoch transition
+  - existing tools should cope
+    * keep in mind for Clippy lint audit
+    * bindgen target version?
+  - new tools (for automatically transitioning code from old epoch to new)
+* website (get tools info on the website)
+* cargo (not really covered in the meetings)
+* test frameworks
+  - RFC
+  - rustc implementation - easy
+  - Cargo integration harder, but do-able this year
+  - re-implement #[test] and #[bench] as custom test frameworks
+  - supporting wasm and embedded test frameworks
+* doxidize (rustdoc 2)
+  - initial release
+  - usable for real projects
+* maintain and improve
+  - rustdoc, rustup, bindgen, debugging, editors
+* Domain Working Groups (servers, CLI, embedded, WASM; as defined in the roadmap) are starting up soon
+  - Cross-cutting concerns: domain working groups will interact with/inform regular Rust teams
+
+
+### Reorganising the team
+
+* sub-teams
+  - working group vs sub-team
+    * WG is goal-focused and possibly temporary.
+    * Sub-team has decision making power, meetings, leader
+  - irc/gitter channels, point of contact for contributors
+* scaling - more teams mean we can bring on more people
+* no more peers - it has served well, but doesn't scale well
+* pull in Cargo team
+* one goal: fewer meetings for most people
+
+* sub-teams
+  - IDEs and editors (including Racer and RLS)
+  - rustdoc
+  - Cargo (including Xargo, etc)
+* WGs
+  - Clippy (should transition to sub-team in near future)
+  - testing (custom test frameworks)
+  - doxidize (should merge with rustdoc team, eventually)
+  - rustfmt
+  - rustup (should merge with Cargo sub-team)
+  - bindgen
+  - debugging
+  - in the future: program transformation (rustfix, rerast, refactoring)/epoch transition
+
+### overhaul find-work site
+
+We should do this soon