Version 12 of Tcl bounty programme

Updated 2016-11-26 18:41:15 by AMG

FlightAware are sponsoring a programme of bounties for improving Tcl and (selected) extensions.

Full details here: https://github.com/flightaware/Tcl-bounties

Note that these bounties are not sufficiently generous to be considered pay (given how much a software engineer should be able to earn). They're more awards for things someone might be inclined to do anyway.


Projects

In progress

  • Array enumeration [L1 ]
  • speed up clock format and clock scan (2X, 4X, 10X)
  • array foreach [L2 ]
  • Support for SO_REUSEPORT on server sockets [L3 ] [L4 ]
  • Tcl package introspection improvements [L5 ]
  • tclreadline improvements [L6 ] [L7 ]
  • Support for epoll()/kqueue() to replace select() in socket handling [L8 ] [L9 ]
  • A first class, high-performance, non-hackish way to do named parameters [L10 ]
  • Call-by-name syntactic sugar for proc definitions that would obviate most uses of upvar [L11 ]

Completed

(coming soon)

Not yet claimed

  • Upgrade the scotty extension (TEA)
  • Upgrade the scotty extension (UDP)
  • Clean up of tcltls
  • Revive the Tcl Pro debugger
  • Make TclX's signal trap handlers safe to use with threaded Tcl
  • Make TclX's profiler work properly with Tcl 8.6
  • Stop Tcl from eating child process exit status gratuitously
  • after -at
  • array default arrayName value
  • Tcl runtime performance improvements (2X)
  • Tcl runtime performance improvements (10X)