This is the weekly Edition Status Update; it contains the state of the content areas surveyed this week. This is the third post in this series. You can read the second post here. This week will be the last status update before Preview 2.
Note: there has also been an important update to the Edition release schedule. We will have an extended beta period, meaning that the final release is now slated for 1.31 on December 6th.
Each content area below lists the blocking issues for the Preview 2 milestone described here, which is scheduled for 2018-08-02. In addition, some areas highlight important news or places where contribution is needed. You can track the full issue burndown on this spreadsheet.
General note
- Please keep trying to migrate crates, the weirder the better!
- Cargo-fix is now part of Cargo proper — no separate
cargo installstep needed.
Language stabilizations (@aturon)
- Two features are in FCP for stabilization:
- Still waiting for more feedback on:
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In-band lifetimes
- Will not ship in Preview 2, looking doubtful for Rust 2018 at all.
- Feedback is crucial here.
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Inferring
T: 'x- Blocked on adding a separate feature gate to one part of the feature.
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In-band lifetimes
Embedded (@japaric)
- First draft of web site content complete.
- (News) ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-R related instructions added to
coresimd.- Permits removing
asm! - Will eventually be stabilized.
- See https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg/issues/63 for more details
- https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/core/arch/arm/index.html
- Book work continues.
- Permits removing
- IRR folks working on adding tests to thumb targets:
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Blocking: panic implementation FCP. Need to work with team(s).
- Potential alternative: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2492
- We’ll discuss maintenance and development of the embedded crates.io ecosystem as well as the restructuring of the rust-embedded GitHub organization in the next WG meeting. If you are interested or would like to help out, subscribe to https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg/issues/130 and / or attend the meeting (date, time and place are in the linked issue).
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Help Wanted
- We are looking for someone / people to help us write an RFC on stabilization of the ARM Cortex intrinsics in
core::arch::arm. Details in https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg/issues/63#issuecomment-408509178. - We are replacing some of the
f32functions inlibmwith ports of newlib’s implementations to get better performance on devices that don’t support double precision floats. If you are interested in helping us with the port leave a comment in one of these issues.
- We are looking for someone / people to help us write an RFC on stabilization of the ARM Cortex intrinsics in
Edition guide (@steveklabnik, @Centril)
- Centril / Steve plan to knock out remaining issues for Preview 2.
- Last week we got plenty of PRs with improvements and merged those. Please keep up reviews of the guide to polish it further.
Book (@steveklabnik)
- Still waiting on stabilizations.
- There are no Preview 2 blockers.
Clippy (@oli-obk)
- Still haven’t solved
#[allow(clippy::somelint)]. - Will be blocking on Clippy testing next cycle.
- Need to rename some lints.
- RFC still silent, oli-obk will try to talk to relevant folks.
NLL (@nikomatsakis)
- Things are in great shape for Preview 2, both for diagnostics and performance. Niko will be writing a blog post soon giving a general update.
- NLL will be part of Preview 2
CLI working group (@killercup)
- We went through issues to assign people.
- Mostly docs work left
- Clap 3 has a more detailed tracking issue/milestone
- News: 12 good issues for newcomers, help wanted!
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assert-rsis also moving towards stable release. - Demo for generating man pages from clap definitions.
- Working on an example repository.
- Markdown documentation for clap definitions: https://github.com/rust-clique/clap-md
rustfix (@killercup)
- killercup has looked into a WIP PR for issues already assigned to them.
- We did some issue triage:
- Added https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5778 to Preview 2. It lacks an assignee, but killercup and acrichto will discuss.
- Blockers: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/milestone/1
- All
cargo fixthings: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ACommand-fix
- Might be good to make
cargo fixwithout any arguments print a help message. - Good first issues:
Lints (@alexcrichton)
- Down to 3 open lints for preview 2 which are all hygiene related and not essential for Preview 2, and will likely not make the preview.
- Not sure how critical the remaining issues are for the Edition; they’re somewhat theoretical
- Should we abolish all mention of
rust_2018_idiomsor leave a stern warning about it probably not working well? Discussion on new issue.
cargo-generate (@ag_dubs)
- Need input on https://github.com/ashleygwilliams/cargo-generate/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A"Blocking+Rust+2018" from folks!
WASM (@fitzgen)
- Published js-sys crate which was one of the big items for Preview 2
- @ag_dubs is aiming to get wasm-pack 0.5.0 out for (roughly) Preview 2; Milestone is here.
- Going to rename
wasm-pack initintowasm-pack buildand make it much more pleasant to build. - fitzgen has a PR open to make the game of life tutorial the main body of the rust+wasm book, which is how we want it to be eventually, but we are holding off on landing the PR until we move the wasm-pack tutorial into the wasm-pack guide.
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Help Wanted!
- Finishing
js-sysso it has 100% complete bindings to JS globals: https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/issues/275 - Help with the unreleased
web-syscrate:
- Finishing
WG-Net (@aturon)
- Futures 0.3.0-alpha.1 is out!
- The WG is being rebooted, with a major meeting this week to determine what to tackle next, now that futures 0.3.0-alpha.1 is out).
- Notes from the WG kickoff meeting are here.
- The WG will be working through the questions raised in the first meeting within the repo, and reconvene next week.
Marketing (@aturon)
- Organized a dedicated repo for a “Rust Marketing Handbook”.
- Sketched out table of contents, got some PRs for very early content.
- Expect this to be a major focus in the coming weeks.