Release cycle triage proposal

[brson]

Release triage minutes 2017-06-01

Stable regressions

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32382
  • Lifetime bound error when using the indexing operator with an associated type containing a lifetime #32382
  • no activity, pnkfelix pinged
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/34421
  • error message for macro in wrong context is missing context #34421
  • jseyfried mentoring
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30829
  • Code no longer builds because of RFC 1214 #30829
  • no progress, ariel commenting
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41795
  • Rust 1.17 regression - chipmunk-0.0.2, invalid fragment specifier #41795
  • A-macros, close bugfix
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/36799
  • Compilation of a crate using a large static map fails on latest i686-pc-windows-gnu Beta #36799
  • progress, not resolved, work underway
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41203
  • Spurious unused type alias warning (regression) #41203
  • nominated T-compiler

Beta regressions

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41607
  • rustdoc beta linking trouble in MinGW #41607
  • I-wrong
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42019
  • macro fragment names are no longer idents #42019
  • I-wrong, jseyfried assigned
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41416
  • build script fails to link #41416
  • I-nominated
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41696
  • Long compilation time due to LLVM creating excessive landing pads #41696
  • A-llvm, arielby assigned

Nightly regressions

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24194
  • regression: dead heap allocations aren’t optimized out anymore #24194
  • I-slow, P-medium, A-llvm, nagisa assigned, acrichto to comment
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42248
  • Broken match statement when compiling for thumbv6-none-eabi (ARM cortex-m0) #42248
  • arielb assigned

1.18 milestone

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/38584
  • Add support for the Visual Studio 2017 linker #38584
  • bumped to 1.19, brson assigned

1.19 milestone

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42157
  • Teach .pkg, .msi, .exe installers about RLS #42157
  • removed milestone, rls deployment story unclear
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41199
  • RLS tests are not being run #41199
  • removed milestone
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41197
  • Support rls --version #41197
  • removed milestone

P-high

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/41255
  • Matching on floating-point literal values is totally allowed and shouldn’t be #41255
  • no change

Old bugs

• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30262
  • Possible bug in trait bounds evaluation #30262
  • P-low
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13846
  • -ffunction-sections triggers an LLVM assert on windows #13846
  • close
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28084
  • Local ambiguity in macro definition #28084
  • P-low, T-lang, I-papercut, bad error message, I-diagnostics
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/22987
  • Investigate activating the IRCE LLVM pass #22987
  • close wishlist
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25759
  • nocapture attribute is missing on function arguments #25759
  • I-slow, T-compiler, P-low, nmatsakis commented, close
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30638
  • dec2flt is slower than it should be #30638
  • close
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/17691
  • Strengthen GPL source offer in Windows distribution #17691
  • close
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18072
  • Investigate how LLVM deals with huge stack frames #18072
  • P-low, I-unsound
• https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18804
  • #[linkage] does not propagate through generic functions #18804
  • P-medium, I-wrong, T-compiler, linked to tracking issue