Meetings

The compiler team host various regular meetings to keep on top of regular business necessary for the running of the team and delivery of a high-quality compiler toolchain.

Triage Meeting

The weekly triage meeting takes place on Zulip: considering any backports, reviewing performance triage reports and discussing nominated issues. Triage meetings are held in the #t-compiler/meetings on Zulip. You can find the up-to-date meeting times in the team calendar. Anyone can attend and it is recommended that compiler team members do.

Generating the triage meeting agenda

See Prioritization for documentation on generating the triage meeting agenda.

Steering/Planning Meeting

The weekly steering/planning meeting also takes place on Zulip and is intended to host high-level discussions. Steering/planning meetings operate on a repeating schedule:

• Week 1: Planning meeting
  • Select the topics for the next three meetings from the team’s proposed meetings.
• Week 2-4: Steering meeting
  • Discuss the planned topic.

During planning meetings, the team lead running the meeting will attempt to identify topics which are relevant for discussion. Some topics may require more investigation before a discussion or may be out-of-date or more relevant to another team. Depending on the availabilities of the meeting proposer and relevant team members, the meetings will then be scheduled into the steering meeting slots of the following weeks. Not all meeting slots need to be scheduled.

Meetings are proposed by opening issues on the compiler team’s repository using the “meeting proposal” template. Steering meetings are good opportunities to discuss issues with the wider team that require a decision/vibe check and would take longer than is typically available when discussing nominated issues in a triage meeting.

It is expected that the proposer of a steering meeting prepare a short and informal document describing the topic and including all necessary context for the discussion, but this does not need to be prepared until the day of the meeting, it is not necessary for the initial meeting proposal.

Any contributor can propose a meeting topic. Some examples of good steering meeting topics include:

• Proposals which require feedback from the team
  • i.e. to refactor subsystems of the compiler or create new out-of-tree dependencies
• In-depth review of large contributions
  • i.e. the author describing and answering questions about their work
• Coordination between the team and the rest of the project
  • i.e. reviewing proposed project goals
• Deciding on a policy for the team
  • i.e. how to handle blockers from external dependencies

Scheduled planning and steering meetings can be found on the compiler team’s calendar.