jethrogb / compiler-team

A home for compiler team planning documents, meeting minutes, and other such things.

compiler-team

A home for compiler team planning documents, meeting minutes, and other such things. If you're interested in learning about how rustc works -- as well as advice on building the compiler, preparing a PR, and other similar topics -- check out the rustc-guide.

Quick facts

• Where to find us: We are primarily present on Zulip, though some of us also monitor Discord.
• Want to attend a meeting or follow along? See the "meeting calendar" section below.
• Looking for technical information about how the compiler works? Check out the rustc-guide.

Meeting Calendar

Unless otherwise noted, all our meetings are open to the public and held on Zulip. There are two main team-wide meetings that we hold as a regular basis. There are also a variety of working group meetings. The team-wide meetings are as follows:

• Triage meeting: We have a weekly triage meeting to discuss and track regressions and urgent changes. This meeting is held on Zulip and open to anyone.
• Steering meeting: We have a steering meeting every three weeks to track and plan our larger goals. This meeting is held on Zulip and open to anyone.

Our meeting calendar is publicly available from the following links:

• CalDav Link -- use this if you use Google Calendar
• ICS file, for use outside from google calendar -- you probably want this otherwise

Content

• Minutes from steering meetings: The compiler steering meeting is where we do high-level discussion. These minutes summarize our conversations.

Working Groups

Much of the ongoing work and initiatives from the compiler team are performed by working groups. Working groups are a great way for new contributors to get involved as they provide a stream of tasks all focused around one area and have designated channels for help and advice. All of the active working groups are listed below:

Name	Leads	Short Description	Start Date	Status	Zulip Stream	Regular meetings	Labels
Async-await Implementation	@nikomatsakis and @cramertj	Implementing async-await	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-async-await	N/A	A-async-await
LLVM	Preliminarily @nagisa	Working with LLVM upstream to represent Rust in its development	N/A	Incubating	N/A	N/A	A-LLVM
Meta	@nikomatsakis, @davidtwco and @spastorino	How compiler team organizes itself	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-meta	N/A	N/A
Non-lexical lifetimes (NLL)	@nikomatsakis and @pnkfelix	Implementing non-lexical lifetimes	June 2017	Winding down	#t-compiler/wg-nll	Weekly, in Zulip (optional)	A-NLL, NLL-*
Traits	@nikomatsakis	Improving the trait-system design + implementation	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-traits	Weekly, in Zulip (optional)	A-traits
Self-Profile	@michaelwoerister and @wesleywiser	Improving the -Z self-profile feature	March 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-self-profile	N/A	N/A
RLS 2.0	@matklad	Experimenting with a new compiler architecture tailored for IDEs	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-rls2.0	N/A	N/A
Parallel-rustc	@Zoxc and @michaelwoerister	Making parallel compilation the default for rustc	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-parallel-rustc	N/A	A-parallel-queries
Profile-Guided Optimization	@michaelwoerister	Implementing profile-guided optimization for rustc	February 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-profile-guided-optimization	N/A	N/A
rfc-2229	@blitzerr and @nikomatsakis	Make a closure capture individual fields of the variable rather than the entire composite variable	March 2019	Active	#t-compiler/wg-rfc-2229	N/A	N/A

Procedures

The procedures directory contains descriptions of various rustc procedures.

Code of Conduct and licensing

All interactions on this repository (whether on issues, PRs, or elsewhere) are governed by the Rust Code of Conduct.

Further, all content on this repository is subject to the standard Rust licensing.