In our previous edition of “Last Week in Pony”, we covered the exploration of ponyc issue #4340 that happened during the April 7th Office Hours. This week, we are happy to report that the bug has been fixed. You can check out this week’s Pony Development Sync to hear Sean and Joe work through the final bits of the bug and you can enjoy the fruits of those labors by installing Pony 0.54.1 which was released this week.
This week in Pony was highlighted by a long debugging session during Office Hours and the merging of LLVM 15 support to main during the Pony Development Sync. A huge thanks to Joe for doing the heavy lifting on getting us up and running on LLVM 15.
There wasn’t a ton of “above ground” activity in Pony this week, although Sean and Joe have been working on fixing a couple of compiler bugs. While you wait for a Last Week in Pony that includes news of those bugs being fixed and the ponyc release that includes them, we offer you this smaller Last Week in Pony and suggest you get reading right after you put on some Aretha.
A slow week in Pony.
A wild mention of Pony appears.
Not a ton of above ground activity with Pony this last week, so this is a fairly short LWIP. Sean’s work project crunch is winding down so expect more activity from him over the next few months.
There was no Pony development sync this week due to low attendance and a small agenda. Beyond that, dig in a read what we have for Pony news this week. It’s a little light in part because, the job that pays me is taking up a lot of my time at the moment leaving very little time for the job that doesn’t pay me.
Time keeps on ticking into the future and Pony continues rolling on. We’d like to open today’s Last Week in Pony with a thank you to all the volunteers (including ourselves), who’ve kept it moving. Bless you all. Here’s to more gradual improvements!
In the meantime, put on some Black Sheep and dig into this week’s news including the delay of the Pony 0.54.0 release.
This week, we are introducing a new regular entry for Last Week in Pony: “Community Resource Highlight”. The new section is replacing our previous “Highlighted Issues” section.
Ryan Hagenson and I discussed “Highlighted Issues” and decided that given how little traction we saw from the community picking up issues to work on the time he invests in each Last Week in Pony would be better spent on other content; our first stab at that content is “Community Resource Highlight”.
We’d love to hear your feedback in the Last Week in Pony stream on the Ponylang Zulip. Do you think the “Community Resource Highlight” will bring you value? Is there something else you’d rather see? Heck, perhaps even something you want to contribute? Let us know. If you aren’t getting value from LWIP then, it’s kind of pointless for us to spend time working on it. So, let us know and in the meantime, kick back, relax, put on John Lee Hooker’s “The Real Folk Blues” and get ready for the Super Bowl later today.