Maintainer priorities

[StephanTLavavej]

This is a quick summary, typically updated every Wednesday, of what the STL maintainers are working on and how much time they have to review PRs.

Review Capacity

Maintainer	Capacity	Notes
@barcharcraz	🪫🪫🪫🪫🪫	0%, ASAN
@CaseyCarter	🔋🔋🔋⚡⚡	50%, <generator>
@StephanTLavavej	🔋🔋🧰🧰💉	40%, toolset update

Maintainer Priorities

@barcharcraz

@CaseyCarter

✅ Approved since last Wed

• <source_location>: Remove EDG workaround for DevCom-10199227 #4939
• Explicitly spell the noexcept-specifier of the move constructor and move assignment operator of packaged_task #4940

☑️ Done since last Wed

• Reviewed <spanstream>: Use static_cast to std::span to avoid ill-formed constructs #4938

⚠️ High priority

• ⚡ P2502R2 <generator>: Synchronous Coroutine Generator For Ranges #2936

🦄 Nice to have

• STL.natvis: The VS copy is outdated #4831

@StephanTLavavej

✅ Approved since last Wed

• Vectorize std::search of 1 and 2 bytes elements with pcmpestri #4745
• Vectorize minmax on each code path #4913
• Workaround Clang 18 issues in our test suite #4932
• Reduce inclusion for IO stream headers in C++23 #4936
• Avoid testing infinities in /fp:fast #4937
• <spanstream>: Use static_cast to std::span to avoid ill-formed constructs #4938
• <source_location>: Remove EDG workaround for DevCom-10199227 #4939

☑️ Done since last Wed

• Silence CodeQL false positive warnings #4942

⚠️ High priority

• 🧰 Toolset update
• ⚙️ Module translation work

🦄 Nice to have

• 🐞 STL Bug Bash II (September?)
• 🐞 18.0: Fix <exception>: std::exception::what has wrong signature #948 (with an escape hatch)
• 🛑 18.0: DOOM RULES ALL Support for Win7 / Server 2008 R2 is DOOMED #4858
• 🛑 18.0: Remove <hash_meow>, <experimental/filesystem>
• 🕵️ Investigate Clang 18 modules (see Arthapz's incantations in Discord)
• 📃 Modules guide with "%VCToolsInstallDir%\modules\std.ixx"
• ⏳ Contribution Guidelines
• 🐞 Record bugfixes in Tracking Issue for constexpr Containers: P0784, P0980, P1004 #1566

Visual C++ Libraries Developers

@amyw-msft

• Amy works on ASAN and the UCRT. She also updates the copy of the Visual C++ Libraries (including the STL) that's used in the Windows codebase.
• She implemented C++17 shared_mutex and occasionally contributes and reviews STL PRs.

@dmitrykobets-msft

• Dmitry works on ASAN.
• He occasionally contributes and reviews STL PRs.

@MahmoudGSaleh

• Mahmoud is the dev lead for the Visual C++ Libraries team and is usually working on boss stuff, shielding the rest of us from distractions like meetings.
• He implemented the C++20 is_layout_compatible group of type traits and occasionally organizes contributor meetups and surveys.

@zacklj89

• Zack works on ASAN.
• He occasionally reviews STL PRs and will contribute something in the future, as foretold by the ancient prophecy. 🔮