dev meeting 2025 01 08

Agenda

• Discussing the introduction of a triage label and do a regular "dig into issues during the dev meeting" (@maiste from an idea of @leonidas-from-XIV)
• Release policy for Dune and maintenance (@maiste)
• Binary distribution of preview, LSP and ocamlformat (@maiste)
• Cache (@ElectreAAS)

Meeting Notes

Attendees: @gridbugs, @ElectreAAS, @art-w, @maiste

Binary Distribution

• We should give control about the preview and binaries to the infrastructure team. The Dune team would be in charge of the correctness and ensuring it builds.

Discussing the introduction of a triage label and do a regular "dig into issues during the dev meeting"

• We are going to do issues digging during the Dune Dev Meeting. The goal is to decided what we should do with issues when we don't know about them.

Release policy for Dune and maintenance

• The maintenance field is about what we want to maintain. In our case it seems to be latest as we don't maintain old version.
• Opam archive is to remove package from opam, but it is not directly correlated to the maintenance field.
• For the release process, we will do review quarter by quarter because we want to see if there are concrete features we can add to the new version.

Cache

• There is a bug in the cache.
• The PR needs reviews from people with knowledge on it.
• Not directly in the engine, but close to it.
• With the changes, the cache doesn't seem to do the correct digest and consider some items as not cached.