# Project Group Error Handling Meeting 2021-08-30

###### tags: `Error Handling` `Minutes`

**Attendees**: Jane, Charles, Sean

## Agenda Items

- [Open action items](https://hackmd.io/@rust-libs/Hyj7kRSld)
- Sean
- Steady progress being made on trial-and-error polishing, waiting for review from Jane
- Charles
- Finished setting up the diagram for the error handling book
- The diagram itself is not fully complete but the skeleton is in place and it's integrated with our github actions so that changes to it will be checked automatically
- Jane
- Reviewed Nick Cameron's `provide_any` PR and Jakub's `core::Backtrace` PR
- Want to focus on getting these two PRs merged and time the coherence PR to land not long after them
- Triage
- Individual Status Updates

## Triage

### Nominated

None

### PG Error Handling

- [5 `rust-lang/rust` `PG-error-handling` items](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=label:PG-error-handling+is:open)
- [[53487](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53487)] *Tracking issue for RFC 2504, "Fix the Error trait"*
- waiting for backtrace RFC to resolve API decisions
- [[72981](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/72981)] *Stabilize the backtrace feature.*
- [[58520](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/58520)] *Tracking issue for error source iterators*
- unassigned
- [[65280](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65280)] *Formatting of std::backtrace::Backtrace*
- unassigned: needs to be cleaned up and split into subissues
- [[77474](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77474)] *Add #\[track\_caller\] support to \`?\`*
- unassigned

### Area Error Handling

- [15 `rust-lang/rust` `A-error-handling` items](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=label:A-error-handling+is:open)
- [[54889](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54889)] *Implement Try for ExitStatus*
- ijackson is iterating on `ExitStatus` api changes, should probably wait for those to settle before adding the Try impl which will be immediately stable but we're fairly confident we want.
- [[60784](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60784)] *Tracking issue for stabilizing \`Error::type\_id\`*
- [[66745](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/66745)] *Tracking issue for PanicInfo::message*
- [[80190](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80190)] *API: Add \`err\_or\` and \`err\_or\_else\` to \`Option\`*
- [[84908](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/84908)] *Tracking Issue for ExitStatusError*
- [[86826](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/86826)] *\[draft\] Store the path in io::Error without extra allocations.*
- [[87869](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/87869)] *Make io::Error use 64 bits on targets with 64 bit pointers.*

### PG Error Handling

None

## Actions

- [ ] Reply to all issues/PRs discussed in this meeting, or add them to the [open action items](https://hackmd.io/UrERZvi5RwyxfGvo-RtC6g).

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