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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

stable-rc prometheus run nearing completion... film at eleven.

After ten days of watching compiles, I'm about 1/2 done triaging bugs and 
prometheus is nearing the end of its run with 90% of the spells done.  That 
means it will be done in time for the weekend.  I will spend most of Saturday 
triaging the rest of the bugs and based off input from Arwed, I will be 
making a must fix list and a new (much smaller) test list for those fixes.  
Anything you have gotten approval to integrate/want to integrate, it 
must be fixed over this weekend and the early part of next week.  If the 
fixes Arwed and I want in are not in, stable release will be delayed, so if 
you are an unlucky soul assigned to fix something, please get on it or I will 
be forced to fix it myself and we'll remember not to assign you 
responsibilities in the future ;)

For those interested, about 10000 compiles were done since each spell was 
attempted to compile at least once (unless its dependencies failed on a 
previous spell cast).

For the future, now that we have a pretty complete list of "basic" bugs for 
the (future) stable grimoire, I'd like to see us work toward fixing 
those failures.  When stable-rc is re-opened, we'll be a lot more (read: 
very) flexible about letting fixes into stable-rc, but for right now, commit 
stuff to test and when stable release happens test automatically becomes 
stable-rc.

I'll also be running prometheus on that new stable-rc grimoire right away, so 
we should have much better warning of failures than this time.  When I 
get any idle time, I'm going to add in a build-on-commit system for test 
grimoire commits -- just to catch the initial problems and act as a simple 
limited regression suite.  I am also thinking of ways to parallelize 
prometheus.  The parallel prioritization will probably be to 1) find 
different hardware, 2) work on different sections, 3) work on different 
grimoires, 4) work on different prompt answers, but I'm undecided as to how 
this will be done currently.

Seth