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.
This past week, there was no sync and no RFC activity and no big announcements. It was also a week that your author was very busy at work and so, put all that together and this week’s Last Week in Pony is a light one.
Last week, we accepted two RFCs that will result in changes to Pony syntax and the standard library respectively.
Not a lot of things that normally make up the content of Last Week in Pony happened this week. Both Sean and Joe were sick so there was no sync meeting which tends to have a cascading effect on other activity.
Most of the “above ground” Pony activity this week was our usual weekly development sync meeting and our weekly office hours.
The headline news of the week, if you are using Pony 0.52.3 to 0.52.5, you should update to 0.53.0 as soon as possible to address a runtime segfault.
The big news is that you should update your Pony version to 0.52.5. It’s very important if you are using Pony 0.51.2 to 0.52.3 that you update as soon as possible.
It was a week dominated by conversations about distributed cycle detection. Both the Pony development sync and Office Hours were almost entirely focused on the topic. Given the somewhat complicated nature of the topic, we expect that it will be a regular source of conversation for a while.