Welcome to the Parrot Developer Wiki

This wiki is a workplace for developers of the Parrot virtual machine and related languages, tools, and applications. If you aren't a developer, you may be looking for  the main Parrot website.

The current status and plan is available at the Parrot Roadmap.

Older content might be still in the  old Parrot wiki, which is in the process of being [MigrateTheWiki migrated to this wiki].

Weekly Focus

If you have resources to contribute to Parrot this week, please ask on the mailing list or in the IRC channel if you need assistance. Our tasks are:

• HLL interoperability (talk to Tene and pmichaud)
• improving the Parrot debugger documentation (talk to dukeleto)
• working on Parrot standard library (talk to japhb)
• building a framework for testing bytecode
• pruning C structures (talk to chromatic)

Hackathons

Next Development Hackathon:

• Date: Saturday, 10 October 2009.
• Focus: pcc_reapply branch.

Next Testing Hackathon:

• Date: Saturday, 17 October 2009

AllHackathons

News and Events

• Parrot 1.6.0 "half-pie" was released on 2009-09-15, see the [http:/www.parrot.org home page] for details. The next release will be 2009-10-20
• GSOC2009Tasklist
• Parrot Virtual Machine Workshop 2009, preceding YAPC::NA::2009, Pittsburgh, 20-21 June 2009
• BuildBot set up to watch SVN and build on commit.

Also see ArchivedNewsEvents.

Current Development Priorities

This is a list of tasks that are priorities for the 1.5.0 release in August.

• ProfilingRuncore
• HllInteroperability
• Installation

Contributing to Parrot

You can contribute to Parrot in many ways:

• NewParrotDeveloperGuide
• Building Parrot on your favorite ListOfPlatforms
  • Perhaps contribute a buildslave on your favorite platform for the parrot BuildBot
• Adding new features  SEE TODO
• Smoking Parrot
  • SmolderTaskList
• Adding tests (see the  recent smoke reports) and CodeCoverageStatistics
• Checking, updating and adding  documentation
• Perl 5 Components
  • Perl 5 Components: Clean Up TODO Items
  • Perl 5 Components: Test Coverage Of Configuration And Build Tools
• C Components?
• Fixing GC Bugs
• WriteTests
• DeveloperTools
• PGEBestPractices
• TreeUnit?
• Fix bugs that Coverity has found

Resources

WhereIsIt

Deprecation

ParrotBestPractices

LlvmJitExperiment

Development Work Pages

• GCTasklist
• IOTasklist
• CallingConventionsTasklist
• StringsTasklist
• NamespaceTasklist
• CageTasklist
• DocsTasklist
• DebuggerTaskList
• ArrayTasklist
• ParrotCommunityKnowledge
• BranchDescriptions
• Pdd30InstallTasklist
• PMCUnionDeprecationTasklist
•  TapTinder - continuous integration for Parrot on various platforms
• L1Recap
• BigProjectIdeas
• APIFuncRenaming
• KeysRefactor
• PIRCDevelopment
• ModuleEcosystem
• Modules
• JITRewrite
• ContextPMCUses?
• GitObjections

Language Resources

Languages

PerlSixTesting

Miscellaneous

Glossy Brochure

ParrotAdvantages

ParrotVirtualAppliance

ParrotQuotes

ParrotVersionNumbers

Wiki 101

Please feel free to add or modify pages — even this one — as you see fit. That's the idea of a wiki.

Simply click on the "Edit this page" link at the bottom of the page. You need to Register or Login before you can edit pages.

Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• WikiFormatting -- Wiki formatting commands
• RecentChanges -- a list of most recent changes to the wiki
•  The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
•  Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.