T-compller april 2022 steering cycle post. A week late, eek.

Author: pnkfelix

posts/inside-rust/2022-04-15-apr-steering-cycle.md

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+layout: post
+title: Rust Compiler April 2022 Steering Cycle
+author: Felix Klock
+description: "The compiler team's April 2022 steering cycle"
+team: The Compiler Team <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/compiler>
+---
+On [Friday, April 8th][apr-08-zulip-archive], the Rust Compiler team had a planning meeting for the April 2022 steering cycle.
+
+[apr-08-zulip-archive]: https://zulip-archive.rust-lang.org/stream/238009-t-compiler/meetings/topic/.5Bplanning.20meeting.5D.202022-04-08.html
+
+Every fourth Friday, the Rust compiler team decides how
+it is going to use its scheduled steering and design meeting time over the next
+three Fridays.
+
+I want to apologize for how late I am posting this message: Our planning meeting
+was a week ago, and my intent each cycle is to put up this post that day, so
+that everyone, not just the compiler team members, has a chance participate in
+the meetings. But, since this is going out a week late, it means one of the
+meetings already happened (today).
+
+On Friday, 15 April, we discussed [salsa 2.0's entity design][ct507]. [Salsa][]
+is a generic framework for on-demand incrementalized computation, which has many
+ties to `rustc`'s query system. Niko Matsakis authored the document that drove
+the meeting's discussion. The discussion was on [zulip][ct507-archive], and
+should eventually be available on Rust's public zulip archive.
+
+[ct507]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/507
+
+[Salsa]: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
+
+[ct507-archive]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings/topic/.5Bsteering.20meeting.5D.202022-04-15.20compiler-team.23507/near/279082491
+
+On Friday, 22 April, we will be having a meeting to discuss compiler team
+[leadership and succession planning][ct506]. Leadership of the Compiler Team,
+and selection of new leads, has thus far been performed in an ad-hoc manner. We
+will be reviewing a document authored by Felix Klock that tries to fix this by
+writing down 1. what the leads do today, 2. the minimum we expect from future
+leads, and 3. what process we should use for selecting new leads.
+
+We are expecting this meeting may not occupy a full hour slot, and plan to
+occupy any remaining time doing ["backlog bonanza"][ct484], reviewing the list
+of unimplemented or partially-implemented features.
+
+[ct506]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/506
+[ct484]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/484
+
+On Friday, 29 April, we will be having a meeting to discuss the future of Rust's
+[incrementatal compilation][ct491]. The incremental compilation system has been
+hard to maintain and hasn't been delivering as much value as we had hoped, at
+least given the amount of effort that goes into maintaining it. We already had a
+[meeting on Friday, 1 April][ct490] that looked at our high-level options going
+forward; this meeting is a follow-up to that, but will now be informed by the
+aforementioned discussion of Salsa 2.0's entity design, which would resolve some
+(but not all) of the issues that plague us today.
+
+[ct491]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/491
+[ct490]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/490
+
+The three meetings in April each run from 2pm to 3pm GMT.
+
+All of the steering meetings take place on the [T-compiler/meetings zulip stream][zulip-meetings].
+
+[zulip-meetings]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings
+