To-do list for Argobots 1.0 release

[shintaro-iwasaki]

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.
We are planning to release Argobots 1.0 this month.

Although we have very few weeks, we plan to make our release include the following:

• Remove deprecated functions
  • ABT_thread_retain(), ABT_thread_release(), ABT_task_retain(), ABT_task_release().
    • See Deprecate ABT_{thread/task}_{retain/release} #138.
  • ABT_xstream_start()
    • See xstream: remove unnecessary ABT_XSTREAM_STATE #147
• Remove deprecated constants
  • ABT_XSTREAM_STATE_CREATED and ABT_XSTREAM_STATE_READY
    • See xstream: remove unnecessary ABT_XSTREAM_STATE #147
  • ABT_ERR_INV_EVENT and ABT_ERR_EVENT
    • See event: remove ABT_event_XXX() functions #144
• Fix bugs in examples/
  • Reported in Fibonacci_thread_task example seg faulting for specifc parameters #103
• [EDIT: 3/19/2020] Provide ABT_thread/task_set_data (if thread/task descriptor sizes allow)
  • Related to List of features to deprecate #17
  • This is desired to deprecate set/get_arg functions in the future.

If you want any (hopefully, easily implementable) fixes and improvements, please let us know.

[shintaro-iwasaki]

Note: memory-related issues (#96, #115, and #116) will be addressed in the future release. We are working on making a complete test to check them.

[shintaro-iwasaki]

Since ABT_{thread/task/self}_{set/get}_data() potentially has an interoperability issue, this is not a right solution (as discussed in #159). Argobots 1.0 should just mark ABT_{thread/task/self}_set_arg() as deprecated. We should remove them after really optimizing ABT_key_{set/get}().

[shintaro-iwasaki]

Argobots v1.0 was released (#166), but your feedback is always welcome!