Rholang Sprint 3 Retrospective

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Apr 11, 2018


Date
Participants

Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed), Michael Stay (Unlicensed), Kyle Butt, Former user (Deleted), Michael Birch (Unlicensed), Former user (Deleted), Nash Foster


Retrospective


What did we do well?


What should we have done better?

  • Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed): We should have budgeted better for the release.  We had to move the date for the Interpreter out.
  • Michael Stay (Unlicensed): We started out having a disconnect with stakeholders, but then remedied by setting up discussions and addressing the issue quickly.
  • Former user (Deleted): Is there a way that we as developers can put proposals to a vote? Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed) : Not sure that this is the right approach, Kyle Butt - aristrocracy is better, technical people that understand the issue are the ones that have.
    • Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed): Write it down in a meeting agenda, call a meeting,  Capture the decision, put it in a specification & implement.  Reference the meeting notes in the specification so anyone can go and see how the decision was made.

Entry Notes:

Joseph Denman: 

  • All Clear to implement Evaluator loop for Normalizer.  DeBrujin indicies may help.  Let Joe complete Proof of Concept.  Using indicies then you don't need to rename.
  • Free Monad patter and onion pattern are future improvements possible to make it more modular.


Michael Birch 

  • runtime errors never get thrown, but the program halts.   Let's write up a bug.  For language design or in the SDK. 
  • Wants details around how he can verify that the tests ran before he starts writing the tests. 


Kyle Butt:

  • Only True is true, and only false is false, and everything else is a type error.  Runtime Type error.

Kent:

  • Tuplespace question - Kent to file a ticket and add Henry as a watcher.

Mike Stay

Action Items

  • Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed): Update standup times.  New invitations.  
  • Kyle Butt: Create a ticket for native processes in the interpreter for the time being. There isn't any way to have system processes in the system.  Ambient Authority to print on a public name.